A square, tan paper with much Chinese writing on the left and a tall, narrow painted organically shaped form to the right.
painting proper Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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A square, tan paper with two columns of much Chinese writing on the left and a tall, narrow painted organically shaped form. The column that is furthest left takes up the entire left edge of the paper and the other column only reaches above the middle of the page. The organic form has much painted detail to show texture throughout and has large holes through it.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2014.197
People
Liu Dan 劉丹 (Nanjing, People's Republic of China born 1953)
Title
Honorable Old Man Rock with Text
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
2003
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/73717

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Large album leaf; ink on brown-tinted paper; with three seals of the artist
Dimensions
painting proper: H. 40.5 x W. 36.3 cm (15 15/16 x 14 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • seal: lower left corner, square, relief: 若僧 (ruo seng)
  • seal: mid-bottom: square, intaglio: 劉 (Liu); square, relief: 丹 (Dan)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Liu Dan, Flushing, NY, (2003-2004), sold; to Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, Cambridge, MA, (2004-2014), gift from Sylvan Barnet and bequest from William Burto; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2014.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto in honor of Robert D. Mowry
Copyright
© Liu Dan
Accession Year
2014
Object Number
2014.197
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Artist born in China; painting done in New York. The painting is of the Honorable Old Man Rock in the Rosenblum Family Collection. The rock on which the painting is based is featured in: Robert D. Mowry, Worlds Within Worlds: The Richard Rosenblum Collection of Chinese Scholars' Rocks, exh. cat., Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Art Museums, 1997), pp. 203-208, no. 29.

Publication History

  • Xu Lei, "Yongmu yu weiguan: Liu Dan tan 'Shangshi' zhi hui", Jingdian (Beijing, 2004), vol. 2, pp. 34-35, p. 35
  • Selected Objects of Scholarly Admiration/Liu Dan, auct. cat., Jeff Hsu Art Gallery (Taipei, 2005), n.p., cat. 10

Exhibition History

  • Rocks, Mountains, Landscapes and Gardens: The Essence of East Asian Painting ('04), Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 01/31/2004 - 08/01/2004
  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/07/2017 - 06/01/2018; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/02/2024 - 06/02/2025

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