Handscroll

Artist Zhou Yong (Chinese)

Date1548

Dimensions11 3/4 x 61 1/2 in.

MediumHandscroll, ink on paper

ClassificationPaintings

Object number

1953.58

Not on View

Label TextLooking back to an earlier style employed by artist Shen Zhou (1427–1509) of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhou Yong employs the “big-axe” shading technique developed in Southern Song era. Look for its characteristic wide, rugged brushstrokes in the mountain peaks. Scrolls often passed through many hands, and owners might inscribe a “colophon”—commentary, description, or information about the scroll or the owne—or mark the scroll with a collector’s stamp. This scroll has inscriptions by two self-described “mountain men,” who were possibly monks, and a poem by a scholar.Published ReferencesShina Nanga Taisei, Vol. XV, repr.

Lee, Sherman E., Chinese Landscape Painting, Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954, no. 66, pp. 92-93, repr. p. 92, fig. 66.

Suzuki Kei, Ri To, Ba En, Ka Kei (Li T'ang Ma Yuan, Ksia Kuei), Tokyo, 1974, p. 169, repr. fig. 82-83.

Exhibition HistoryCleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Landscape Painting, 1954.

J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, , 1965.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Chuang Shen, "A buffalo painting by a minor Ming artist...," in National Palace Museum Quarterly, vol. 2, April 1968, pp. 9-24.