What a Glorious Land! | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2006.13
People: Lee Chun-Yi (Li Junyi) 李君毅, Chinese (Gaoxiong (Kao-hsiung), Taiwan born 1965)
Title: What a Glorious Land!
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Jiangshan ruci dou jiao
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: handscroll, painting
Date: 2005
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States, Arizona, Tempe
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/1429

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Handscroll; ink on paper; with signature in clerical script (lishu) reading "Li Junyi ling wu" (Li Junyi '05); with colophon by Liu Guosong (b. 1932) dated 2006
Dimensions: entire painting, including title: H. 17 x W. 300 cm (6 11/16 x 118 1/8 in.)
mounting: H. 17.78 cm (7 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Chun-yi Lee, Tempe, AZ (2005-2006), sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase in honor of Professor Chu-tsing Li through the generosity of an anonymous donor and of the Ralph C. Marcove International Understanding Through Arts and Crafts Foundation
Copyright: © 1989 Lee Chun-yi
Accession Year: 2006
Object Number: 2006.13
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: This handscroll depicts a range of tree-covered mountains shrouded in mist. A title written by the artist precedes the painting; the title is a line from a 1936 poem by Mao Zedong and reads "Jiangshan ruci dou jiao". It can be translated as "What a Glorious Land!", though it is also translated as "This land, so rich in beauty."

Publication History

Robert D. Mowry, The New Chinese Landscape: Recent Acquisitions, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., 2006), pp. 5-7, 12, fig. 3
Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2005-2006 (Cambridge, MA, 2007), p. 14-15

Exhibition History

The New Chinese Landscape: Recent Acquisitions, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/12/2006 - 11/12/2006
32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 05/31/2015

Verification Level

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2006.13: What a Glorious Land!