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Pulling Oars under Clearing Autumn Skies 晴秋涉櫂圖

A work made of hanging scroll; ink and color on paper.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of hanging scroll; ink and color on paper.

Date:

Ming dynasty (1368–1644); c. 1545

Artist:

Lu Zhi 陸治 (Chinese, 1496-1576)

About this artwork

Landscape painting offered artists the opportunity to create visual poems about the beauty and continuity of nature and man’s place in it. Lu Zhi, a 16th-century artist, belonged to a class of highly educated men who painted for their own pleasure. In Distant Mountains, he used multiple ground planes and suggestive voids to create a majestic vista of jagged peaks and a meandering, wide river. Through the crystalline precision of his brush strokes, the artist achieved an image of great clarity and refinement.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Lu Zhi

Title

Pulling Oars under Clearing Autumn Skies 晴秋涉櫂圖

Place

China (Artist's nationality:)

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1540–1550

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed by the artist: Beyond the sky the distant mountains seem to float like green jade. In the evening light, on my magnolia boat, I watch numberless hibiscus spread toward me in the rapid wind. I feast my eye on the cold river in autumn. Lu Zhi.

Dimensions

105.8 × 31.1 cm (41 5/8 × 17 in.)

Credit Line

W. L. Mead Fund

Reference Number

1953.159

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