Landscape and Fisherman with Poem

late 1400s - early 1500s

Guo Xu Chinese, 1456-1532

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Landscape and Fisherman with Poem: 1 of Collection Gallery

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About the Artwork

Title Landscape and Fisherman with Poem

Artwork Date late 1400s - early 1500s

Artist Guo Xu

Life Dates 1456-1532

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Chinese

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Ink on paper

Dimensions Overall (scroll height): 10 5/16 inches × 17 feet 1 inches × 2 inches (26.2 cm × 5 m 20.7 cm × 5.1 cm) Sheet (blank with stamps): 9 1/4 × 25 3/4 inches (23.5 × 65.4 cm) Image (painting 1, Landscape): 9 inches × 61 3/4 inches (22.9 × 156.8 cm) Image (painting 2, Fisherman with Poem): 9 inches × 59 1/8 inches (22.9 × 150.2 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department Asian Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Sarah Bacon Hill Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 42.51

Markings

Signed Signed: Written and painted by Ching-kuang with running brush

Inscriptions Inscribed, at left of second painting [fisherman], a poem and signature line: [translated: A furious wind sweeps down iron coral branches. / One travels a thousand mountains without seeing a single bird. / The rich feast on delectable fish. / Merry with wine, who thinks of the fisherman? / Signed: Written and painted by Qing Kuang with running brush]

Marks Stamps, first painting [landscape], seals from right to left: (1) Kuo, (2) Jen Hung, (3) Modeste Studio, (4) Lai-chen, latter two seals of Pang Yuan-chi Stamps, second painting [fisher with poem], seals from right to left: (1) Pang Lai-chen, (2) Modeste Studio, (3) Kue, (4) Ching Kuang, (5) Jen Hung, (6) Meng Hsu T'ing, (7) Modeste Studio

Provenance

(Ton Ying and Co., New York, New York, USA);
1942-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bulletin of the DIA 22 (1942-43): p. 30 (ill.).

Davies, Florence. "A Forward Step." The Detroit News, July 19, 1942.

Buddhist Art, DIA Twenty-fourth Loan Exhibition. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942, no. 79.

DIA Picture Book: Art of India, China, and Japan. Detroit, 1946, p. 23 (ill.).

Chinese Paintings. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, 1948, (ill.).

Connoisseur 130, no. 528 (November 1952): p. 144 (ill.).

Chinese Landscape Painting. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, 1954, p.68 (ill.).

DIA Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 52 (ill.).

East of Mandalay: 3000 Years of Asian Art. Exh. cat., Midland Art Council. Midland, 1971, no. 37.

University Liggett Antiques Show. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe Woods, 1979, p. 101.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Guo Xu, Landscape and Fisherman with Poem, late 1400s - early 1500s, ink on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Sarah Bacon Hill Fund, 42.51.