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Leaf 1: Gazing at the Waterfall in the Shade of Pines
1962
Fu Baoshi
Fu Baoshi (Chinese, 1904–1965)
Chinese Art
Leaf 1: Gazing at the Waterfall in the Shade of Pines, 1962. Fu Baoshi (Chinese, 1904–1965). Fan painting mounted as an album leaf, ink and color on paper; overall: 21 x 55.5 cm (8 1/4 x 21 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2008.13.1 Themes like gazing at waterfalls evoke the literati ideal of man in harmony with nature.
- Maker/Artist
- Fu Baoshi
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- fan painting mounted as an album leaf, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 21 x 55.5 cm (8 1/4 x 21 7/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: The artist’s first inscription: My elder daughter, Yishan 益珊, has been staying at the Lake Tai Rehabilitation Center for about two and a half months. We haven’t seen each other for more than two months. Today I am suddenly thinking of her. I am not a hero and can’t be unaffected by human emotions, let alone my approaching old age! This work is painted to dispel my low spirits. Recorded by Fu Baoshi on the first day of the fifth lunar month, the renyin year [1962], in Nanjing. Inscription: The artist’s second inscription: Today I sent Xiaoxiao [Fu Yishan 傅益珊] to the hospital. She is beginning to recover. After returning from the Xiling Gorge, as I picked up this painting again, I thought more about the passage of time. So I added the twisted roots and gnarled branches of the green pines, giving them a posture of endurance. Recorded on the twentieth day of the leap fourth month in the guimao year [1963] by Baoshi.
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 2008.13.1
- Credit Line
- Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Art of Fu Baoshi (1904 - 1965)
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
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