Summer Mountains (after Dong Yuan [active c. 937–75])

1290–1354

Current Collection

Cleveland, United States

Medium: hanging scroll; ink and slight color on silk
Dimensions: 131.7 × 55.6 cm
Status: In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID: C24-112354

This monumental landscape is drawn in softly rounded strokes with darker lines frequently applied on top of lighter ones. This technique recalls one of the suggestions included in a collection of the artist's writings known as Secrets of Landscape Painting: The most difficult thing in painting is using the ink. The artist begins by using dilute ink and builds it up to the point where it begins to look right, then uses dense, black ink, applied fairly dry, and washes of deeper-toned ink. This technique distinguishes the fields from the paths, the far from the near. Huang Gongwang may have lear…

Provenance

Marlatt Fund, 1992.1

Registry history

1290–1354 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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