About This Artwork
Lan Ying
Chinese, 1585-c. 1664
Landscape in the Style of Ancient Masters: after Gao Kegong (1247-1310)Ming dynasty (1368-1644), 1642
Album leaf; ink and colors on paper
31 x 40.7 cm (12 x 16 in.)
the 1st leaf
Gao Yangjing (Gao Kogong, 1248-1310) painted the Autumn Clearing in the Misty Woods. This is painted in the style of Gao; I ask for Mr. Jiou’s instruction. In the year of renwu [1642], Ying.
Samuel M. Nickerson fund, 1958.395.b
Asian Art
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Art Institute of Chicago, Ming-Ch’ing Dynasties, A.D. 1368-1644, A.D. 1644-1912, August 7-October 11, 1964. (no cat no., n.p.)
Publication History
Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, 1958.Art Institute of Chicago, Ming-Ch’ing Dynasties, A.D. 1368-1644, A.D. 1644-1912, exh cat. (no cat no., n.p.)
“Oriental Art Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1958,” Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, 13 (1959), p. 90, fig. 4.
Kei Suzuki, comp., Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings [Chugoku kaiga sogo zuroku], American and Canadian Collections, (University of Tokyo Press, 1982), 1, pls. A3-022: 8/8.
Elinor L. Pearlstein and James T. Ulak, Asian Art in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago / Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993), pp. 76-77, p. 78 (ill.), p. 149.
Ownership History
Purchased from Kozo Harada, Tokyo