2021.624: South Heavenly Gate of Putuo Mountain
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2021.624
- People
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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
- hanging scroll, painting
- 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
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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
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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]
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inscription:
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
Verification Level
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