2008.44: Wild Winds through Lofty Mountains

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2008.44

People

Yu Peng 于彭, Chinese (Taipei, Taiwan 1955 - 2014)

Title

Wild Winds through Lofty Mountains

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

hanging scroll, painting

Date

2007

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/324908

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink on paper; with signature reading Yu Peng xie; with inscribed cyclical-year designation reading dinghai (i.e., 2007); with square, red, intaglio seal reading Yu Peng

Dimensions

painting proper: 233.0 x 53.5 cm (91 3/4 x 21 1/16 in.)
scroll mounting: 288.29 x 64.14 cm (113 1/2 x 25 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: Yu Peng xie
• inscription: Brush-written artist's inscription at top (translated by Howard Rogers): The wild winds are boundless on the lofty mountains,
  The overflowing boat is discarded in the deep sea.
  Heart so still it appears unnoticed,
  None of the past seems to apply anymore.
  As the endless blue sea howls,
  Who really understands the high Daoist priest Changchun?
  
  Written by Yu Peng in the dinghai year [2007] at Sipingju during a severe heat wave.
  
  

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Purchased from Kaikodo, New York, 2008

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky, Ralph W. and Faye Petersen Johnson, and Thomas M.T. and Catherine S.K. Fok

Accession Year

2008

Object Number

2008.44

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Harvard Art Museum, Harvard Art Museum Annual Report, ed. Thomas W. Lentz (Cambridge, 2007-2008), p. 6

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