Old Pine Tree
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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Old Pine Tree

late 1530s
Wen Zhengming (Chinese, 1470–1559) visual detail
ArtistWen Zhengming (Chinese, 1470–1559)
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Qian Shisheng 錢士昇 [1575–1652]

at least by 1736–c. 1911

Qing imperial collection (seals of Emperors Qianlong, r. 1736–1795; Jiaqing, r. 1796–1820; and Xuanz...

?–1964

(Jean-Pierre Dubosc [1904–1988], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1964–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Qian Shisheng 錢士昇 [1575–1652] Qing imperial collection (seals of Emperors Qianlong, r. 1736–1795; Jiaqing, r. 1796–1820; and Xuanzong, r. 1909–11) (Jean-Pierre Dubosc [1904–1988], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

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Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965). The Colors of Ink. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974). Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 24-November 25, 1990). Silent Poetry: Masterworks of Chinese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 14, 2015-April 24, 2016). Mostra d'arte cinese (Settimo centenario di Marco Polo). Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy (1954). The Art of Wen Cheng-ming. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (January 25-February 29, 1976); Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (April 7-June 7, 1976) Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982). Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 28, 2014-January 7, 2015).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Here the natural appearance of a gnarled and vine-entangled pine has been transformed into a rhythmic abstraction of brushstrokes and ink tonalities, with unifying opposites—opening and closing, rising and falling—that provide the design across the horizontal scroll. The artist's inscription reads: "The force of change beyond restraint; / The dragon's whiskers are likened to a forest of spears."

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Evidence state

0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 4 structured provenance events · 5 structured exhibitions.

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