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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.87
People
Liu Dan 劉丹 (Nanjing, People's Republic of China born 1953)
Title
Ink Landscape
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
hanging scroll, painting
Date
1991
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Hawaii, Honolulu
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/20971

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper; with artist's square red intaglio seal reading "Liu Dan Zhi Yin"
Dimensions
painting proper: H. 236.7 x W. 121.9 cm (93 3/16 x 48 in.)
mounting, including cord and roller ends: H. 373.4 x W. 150.5 cm (147 x 59 1/4 in.)
silk mounting only: H. 363.2 x W. 141 cm (143 x 55 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Liu Dan, artist, (1991-2005), sold; [through Kaikodo, New York, 1995]; to Harvard Art Museum.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Alexandra Munroe and Robert Rosenkranz (Law School Class of 1965) in honor of Henry Whitney Munroe (Class of 1943)
Copyright
© 1991 Liu Dan
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.87
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alexandra Munroe, Liu Dan: Alternative Visions, exh. cat., Takashimaya Co. Ltd (New York and Tokyo, 1993)
  • Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2004-2005 (Cambridge, MA, 2005), p. 11
  • Selected Objects of Scholarly Admiration/Liu Dan, auct. cat., Jeff Hsu Art Gallery (Taipei, 2005), n.p., essay illustration
  • Robert D. Mowry, The New Chinese Landscape: Recent Acquisitions, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., 2006), pp. 6-7, 10, 12, fig. 5
  • Catherine Delacour, Rochers de lettrés, itineraries de l’art en Chine, exh. cat., Musée Guimet (Paris, France, 2012), p. 144, cat. no. 96; p. 52, fig. 20 (detail)
  • Liu Yang and Stephen Little, Ink Unbound: Paintings by Liu Dan, exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, 2016), pp. 12, 25, 56-57, cat. no. 2
  • Claudia Brown, "Acquisitions of Chinese Painting by North American Museums Since the 1980s: Some Impressions", World. 3, Research on Chinese art history : a Western perspective, Shanghai renmin chubanshe and OCAT Institute (Shanghai, 2020), pp. 112-131, pp. 129-130, fig. 9

Exhibition History

  • The New Chinese Landscape: Recent Acquisitions, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/12/2006 - 11/12/2006
  • Re-View: S228-230 (Asian rotation: 5) Brush and Ink Reconsidered: Contemporary Chinese Landscapes, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/23/2010 - 05/14/2011
  • The roads of Art in China and scholar’s rocks, Musée Guimet, Paris, 03/28/2012 - 06/25/2012
  • Ink Unbound: Paintings by Liu Dan, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 09/17/2016 - 01/30/2017

Subjects and Contexts

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