2021.624: South Heavenly Gate of Putuo Mountain

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2021.624

People

Tao Yiqing 陶一清, Chinese (1914 - 1986)

Title

South Heavenly Gate of Putuo Mountain

Other Titles

Original Language Title: 普陀南天門

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting, hanging scroll

Date

20th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/319282

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

painting proper: H. 50.8 × W. 67.9 cm (20 × 26 3/4 in.)
overall mounting: H. 184.5 × W. 86 cm (72 5/8 × 33 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription:
  普沱南天門 一清 [South Heavenly Gate of Putuo Mountain; Yiqing]
• seal: lower left; square, relief: 陶一清 [Tao Yiqing]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Tao Yiqing, Beijing (by 1986), acquired; by Chu-tsing Li, Lawrence, Kansas (by 1986-2012), gift; to his son B U.K. Li, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2012-2021), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021.

Note:
Dr. Chu-tsing Li (1920-2014)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Chu-tsing Li Collection, Gift of B U.K. Li in memory of Chu-tsing Li, Yao-wen Kwang Li, and Teri Ho Li

Accession Year

2021

Object Number

2021.624

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

The hanging scroll frames a horizontally oriented color painting. In the foreground, seen from above, green fields adjoin a sand-colored shoreline along a crescent-shaped bay. Boats with rolled sails have docked, and people walk about on shore. In the midground is a wooded outcropping at the left edge of the bay. Across a greater stretch of water are visible several outlying islands. More boats with lowered sails approach the shore, but those receding into the distance beyond the bay have raised sails. A line of Chinese characters runs along the bottom of the left side, with one red square seal below.

Publication History

• Robert D. Mowry and Claudia Brown, A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950-2000, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge, Mass., 2007), cat. 46

Exhibition History

• A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950-2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/03/2007 - 01/27/2008; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 06/28/2008 - 09/14/2008; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, 10/11/2008 - 01/04/2009; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, 02/11/2009 - 05/24/2009

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