Exchange: Professor Perrin Selcer's Environmental History course

Professor Perrin Selcer's Environmental History course

This is a delicate landscape. There are mountain crags, dispersed trees and bushes, and some houses/huts depicted. There is calligraphy on the upper right hand corner with one red seal, and towards the upper left corner with a red seal. There is also another red seal on the lower left hand corner. The colors are muted and are barely discernable from one another. There is a central jutting rock in the center of the painting that takes up a lot of horizontal space, and encourages the eye to travel upwards.

Sun Yi
Picture of the Cinnabar Peak
hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper
44 7/8 in. x 18 1/4 in. ( 114 cm x 46.4 cm )
Gift of Professor Richard and Vee Ling Edwards

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The green mountains in this fan painting appear truly vertical and solid. The clouds, too, in spite of their rounded edges appear to be frozen in space. A pine tree bends over the side of the cliff, with its foliage over a traveler in white crossing a bridge below.

Chinese
Blue Mountains and White Clouds

fan mounted as hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
10 3/8 in. x 10 13/16 in. ( 26.35 cm x 27.5 cm )
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. C.D. Carter

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A person mounted on a horse can be seen crossing a bridge over a river among mountains. Mountains among clouds seem to fade away far in the distance.<br />
Inscription:<br />
At the place where mountain chains converge, I am reminded of a landscape I have visited in the past. [Painted on the occasion of] recalling an earlier visit to Mt. Hua, in winter of the Guichou year. [Signed] Junbi.

Junbi Huang
Mt. Hua
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
35 7/16 x 11 5/16 in. (89.9 x 28.6 cm);18 15/16 in. (48 cm);35 3/8 x 15 3/4 in. (89.85 x 40 cm)
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection

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Zhang Daqian (Chang Ta-ch'ien)
Mountain Landscape after Hongren
hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper
33 3/8 x 13.9 in. (84.77 x 35.4 cm)
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection

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In this fan painting mounted as an album leaf, a fishing boat is moored at shore. Water stretches to the right, and above it calligraphic text recounting the story of Peach Blossom Spring. To the left of the boat, are green riverbanks, blossoming peach trees, and a man in a small cave.

Qiu Ying
Peach Blossom Spring
ink and color on gold paper
8 ⅛ in x 21 9/16 in (20.64 cm x 54.77 cm);22 1/16 in x 28 1/16 in (56.04 cm x 71.28 cm);13 ⅛ in x 23 4/5 in (33.34 cm x 60.48 cm);8 ⅛ in x 21 9/16 in (20.64 cm x 54.77 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund

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Pastoral poet Tao Yuanming (372–427) and a boy-servant bearing chrysanthemums on his back are shown. Two pine trees dominate the composition. Tao Yuanming’s forward gaze and slightly hunched posture exhibit his full inner exhilaration when chrysanthemums were collected. The subtle smile on the poet’s face seems also to reflect a moment of transcendence.<br />
Has signature and seal of the artist

Ni Tian
Tao Yuanming Appreciating Chrysanthemums
hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
58 1/4 in x 15 1/4 in (148 cm x 38.8 cm)
Gift of Jung Ying Ts'ao, in honor of State Senator Jack Faxon

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Zhao Zuo
Luxuriant Streams and Mountains, Summer
fan mounted as an album leaf, ink on paper
6 ¾ in x 20 15/16 in (17.15 cm x 53.18 cm);6 ¾ in x 20 15/16 in (17.15 cm x 53.18 cm);22 1/16 in x 28 1/16 in (56.04 cm x 71.28 cm);14 ¾ in x 23 ⅝ in (37.47 cm x 60.01 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund

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A vertical painting with signature on the right side. Colors primarily include gray and faded browns/oranges. Paper is faded yellow color.

Lan Ying
Scholar in a Landscape

album leaf, ink and color on paper
12 3/10 in x 8 ¾ in (31.27 cm x 22.23 cm);22 1/16 in x 18 1/16 in (56.04 cm x 45.88 cm);16 ½ in x 11 7/16 in (41.91 cm x 29.05 cm);12 3/10 in x 8 ¾ in (31.27 cm x 22.23 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund

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A small thatched hut is nestled in the side of a mountain, above baren trees. Text is written in the upper left corner.

Gong Xian (Kung Hsien)
A Picture of the Mountain Dwelling

Hanging scroll, ink on silk
4 ft. 5 3/4 in. x 19 5/16 in. (136.5 x 49 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund

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An ink painting of a mountainscape with hills and abstract paths. Trees are depicted in darker shades, though most do not hold any detail. The image is in the lower half of the hanging scroll, and the upper half is covered with text. The image is entirely grey-scale.

Shitao (Shih-t'ao)
Old Man and The Green Mountain (Ch'ing-shan lao-fu)
ink on paper
19 1/2 in. x 12 3/16 in. ( 49.5 cm x 31 cm )
Museum Purchase

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