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Landscape in the Style of Huang Gongwang

Landscape in the Style of Huang Gongwang by Gu Tianzhi (Chinese, active mid-1600s)

Medium

handscroll, ink and color on paper

Dimensions

25.5 × 717.5 cm

Classification

Painting

Department

Chinese Art

Museum

Cleveland Museum of Art

Credit

John L. Severance Fund

Accession Number

1970.3

Tags

male

About this artwork

A sweeping vista of energized mountains, hills, small islands, sand bars, and rivers, this painting retains a simple coherence of ideas and images. Its inspiration comes from Huang Gongwang (1269–1354), the great master of the Yuan dynasty, whose famous Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains has a similar structure, but is much more diverse and varied in its composition. Here, the basic elements of trees, rocks, and hills are repeated in differing scales at varying distances, contributing to the essen...

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