Winter Landscape

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of Asia

Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

Xie Shichen
Chinese, 1487-after 1567

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Xie Shichen
Title: Winter Landscape
Place: China (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1500–1559
Medium: Handscroll; ink with touches of color on paper
Inscriptions: Artist's Inscription: Myriad mountains in flying snow, painted by Shuxian, Xie Shichen. Artist's seal; Xie Sizhong shi, intaglio Qishisiweng(Seventy four years old man), intaglio Yuchi title by Luo Zhenyu (1866-1940) Collector's seal: "Hongdou shanzhuang" 4 colophons: Zhu Xuan, (17th) Luo Zhenyu, (1918) Nagao Ko (1919) Cha Honghu (1919)
Dimensions: 27.7 × 396.3 cm (10 7/8 × 156 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Orientals
Reference Number: 1950.1151
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Paul L. Grigaut, E.P. Richardson, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty (The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1952), No. 28, p. 13.
Charles Fabens Kelley, “Chinese Painting,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, (AIC, 1951(11/4)). vol. 45, no. 4, figs. 5-6.

University of Chicago, Hsieh Shih-ch’en: a Ming Dynasty Painter Reinterprets the Past. David and Alfred Smart Gallery, January 12-February 26, 1978
Detroit Institute of Arts, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, 1952

Laurence Sickman, K.C.Mo.

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