Harvard Art Museums > 2021.625: Landscape of Tibet Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Landscape of Tibet (Xu Xi 徐希) , 2021.625,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/319283. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2021.625 People Xu Xi 徐希, Chinese (Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China 1940 - 2015 Beijing, China) Title Landscape of Tibet Other Titles Original Language Title: 西藏山水 Classification Paintings Work Type hanging scroll, painting Date probably 1980s Places Creation Place: East Asia, China Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/319283 Physical Descriptions Medium Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper Dimensions painting proper: H. 68.8 × W. 45.4 cm (27 1/16 × 17 7/8 in.) overall mounting: H. 189 × W. 66.3 cm (74 7/16 × 26 1/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks signature: 徐希畫 [Painted by Xu Xi] seal: of artist, following signature; square, intaglio: 徐希 [Xu Xi] seal: middle left; rectangular, relief: 山河頌 Shanhe song [Ode to the Mountains and Rivers] Provenance Recorded Ownership History Xu Xi, Beijing and New York (by 1980s), acquired; by Chu-tsing Li, Lawrence, Kansas (1980s-2012), gift; to his son B U.K. Li, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2012-2021), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021. Note: Dr. Chu-tsing Li (1920-2014) Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Chu-tsing Li Collection, Gift of B U.K. Li in memory of Chu-tsing Li, Yao-wen Kwang Li, and Teri Ho Li Copyright © Xu Xi 徐希 Accession Year 2021 Object Number 2021.625 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description The hanging scroll frames a vertically oriented color painting. Jagged snowcapped peaks rendered in dry brush—and more distant peaks in a blue-gray wet brush—dominate the upper quarter of the composition. Wetly rendered terraces on the black slopes descend towards the saturated malachite green of the valley’s grasses, all seeming to bleed into one another. Shepherds in red robes stand in the fields at the water’s edge, surrounded by their flocks and with their huts visible in the distance, at the foot of the mountains. Chinese characters run along the middle of the left side, with one red square seal immediately below and other slightly above. Publication History Robert D. Mowry and Claudia Brown, A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950-2000, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge, Mass., 2007), cat. 47 Exhibition History A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950-2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/03/2007 - 01/27/2008; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 06/28/2008 - 09/14/2008; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, 10/11/2008 - 01/04/2009; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, 02/11/2009 - 05/24/2009 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/04/2023 - 12/04/2023 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
