Fishermen, after Jing Hao

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Maker(s)
Artist: Wu Zhen 吳鎮 (1280-1354)
Historical period(s)
Yuan dynasty, ca. 1341
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
H x W (image): 32.5 x 565.6 cm (12 13/16 x 222 11/16 in)
Geography
China
Credit Line
Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Accession Number
F1937.12
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Painting
Type

Handscroll

Keywords
China, cursive script, fishing, landscape, mountain, Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368)
Provenance

To 1937
Tonying and Company, New York. [1]

From 1937
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Tonying and Company, New York. [2]

Notes:

[1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

[2] See note 1.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Tonying and Company established 1902

Label

To learn more about this and similar objects, visit http://www.asia.si.edu/SongYuan/default.asp Song and Yuan Dynasty Painting and Calligraphy.

Published References
  • Nakata Yujiro, Fu Shen. O-bei shuzo Chugoku hosho meiseki shu [Masterpieces of Chinese Calligraphy in American and European Collections]. 6 vols., Tokyo, 1981-1983. vol. 4: pl. 1, 25-29.
  • Nicole Vandier-Nicolas. Chinese Painting: Expression of a Civilization. New York. figs. 137-138.
  • Mary Tregear. Chinese Art. London. pl. 113.
  • Suzuki Kei. Chugoku kaiga sogo zuroku [Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Painting]. 5 vols., Tokyo, 1982-1983. vol. 1 (1982 ed.): pp. 202-203.
  • Osvald Siren. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. 7 vols., New York and London, 1956-1958. vol. 6: pls. 86-87.
  • Osvald Siren. Kinas Konst Under Tre Artusenden. 2 vols., Stockholm, 1942-1943. vol. 2: figs.408a-b, 435.
  • Osvald Siren. The Chinese on the Art of Painting: Translations and Comments. Peiking. pl. 3.
  • Laurence Sickman, Alexander Coburn Soper. The Art and Architecture of China. The Pelican History of Art London and Baltimore. pl. 118.
  • George Sarton. Introduction to the History of Science. 3 vols., Baltimore, 1927-1947. vol. 3: p. 235.
  • Great Drawings of All Time. 4 vols., New York. pl. 895.
  • Richard Edwards. The Field of Stones: A Study of the Art of Shen Chou (1427-1509). Oriental Studies Series, no. 5 Washington, 1962. pl. 16d.
  • Chuang Shen. The Hermit Angler by Sheng Mao and Some Related Problems. vol. 4, no. 1 Taipei, March/April 1969. pp. 3-12, fig. 3.
  • Grace Dunham Guest, Archibald Gibson Wenley. Annotated Outlines of the History of Chinese Arts. Washington, 1949. p. 16.
  • Fu Shen, Glenn D. Lowry, Ann Yonemura, Thomas Lawton. From Concept to Context: Approaches to Asian and Islamic Calligraphy. Exh. cat. Washington. cat. 7, pp. 32-33.
  • Joan Stanley-Baker. Accrued Perceptions of Wu Zhen: The Fishermen Theme. vol. 8, 1991. pp. 36-46.
  • David E. Cooper. Convergence with Nature: A Daoist Perspective. UK. pp. 72-73.
  • Robert K.G. Temple. China: Land of Discovery. Willingborough. p. 88.
  • James Cahill. Chinese Painting. Treasures of Asia Geneva and Cleveland. p. 108.
  • James Cahill. Wu Chen: A Chinese Landscapist and Bamboo Artist of the Fourteenth Century. Ann Arbor. pp. 159-165, pls. 10-12.
  • Shou-Chien Shih. From Style to Huayi: Ruminating on Chinese Art History. Taipei, Taiwan. p.189, fig.110.
  • Ch'en Ch'ing-kuang. Wu Chen: A Painter of the Yuan Dyansty [Yuan tai hua chia Wu Chen]. Taipei. p. 192.
  • Sherman Lee. A History of Far Eastern Art. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1964. p. 408, fig. 542.
Collection Area(s)
Chinese Art
Web Resources
Song and Yuan Dynasty Painting and Calligraphy
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