Poetic Thoughts in a Forest Pavilion 林堂詩思圖

Arts of Asia

Ming dynasty (1368–1644), c. 1371

Ni Zan 倪瓚 (Chinese, 1301–1374)

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Artist: Ni Zan
Title: Poetic Thoughts in a Forest Pavilion 林堂詩思圖
Place: China (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1366–1376
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Inscriptions: Inscription by the painter at the upper right：林堂竹樹藹交陰求友嚶鳴亦好音絃誦諸生時列坐邑中宓子但鳴琴七月廿三日寫林堂詩思圖並詩以遺又新茂才瓚 In a forest pavilion, bamboo and trees give thickly overlapping shade, Seeking friends crying "ying," I too am fond of music. Reciting to strings, gathered scholars are from time to time arranged and seated, In his district, Master Fu had only to play the qin. On the twenty-fourth day fo the seventh month, I sketched [this] painting of "Poetic Thoughts in a Forest Pavilion," and wrote the poem in order to leave it behind for the multi-talented Youxin [possibly Tang Pan]. Zan. Collectors seals from left to right, top tobottom: 湖颿（帆）鑑賞，王氏季遷珍藏之印，胡鼻山，雨心館主，平安橋主，濟民珍秘，□硯樓藏，墨緣堂，王時敏印
Dimensions: 124 × 50.5 cm (48 7/8 × 19 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment; purchased with funds provided by of the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation
Reference Number: 1996.432
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Little, Stephen, “Chinese Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Arts of Asia, vol. 29, no. 3, 1999, p. 48, fig. 3.
Siren, Osvald, Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles, 7 vols. London: Lund Humphries, 1955-1958, vol. 3, pl. 99B.
Suzuki Kei, ed., Chugoku kaiga sogo zuroku, 5 vols, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, 1982, vol. 1, pl. A14-015.
Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings: Third Series, Vol. 1 American and Canadian Collections 1, Research Field of Art, East Asian Department, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo, by University of Tokyo Press, 2013; page I-28, No. A 3–097.
Wang, C. C. “Ni Yunlin zhi hua” (“The Paintings of Ni Yunlin [Ni Zan]”), National Palace Museum Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 3, Taipei: January 1967, pl. 20.
Yiyuan duoying, vol. 38, Shanghai, 1988, p. 16.
Stephen Little, “Poetic Thoughts in a Forest Pavilion,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 1 (2004), pp. 38-39 (color ills.).
Asia Society, Archives of Asian Art, (1997-1998), p. 101.

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