Streams and Mountains without End
Unknown Artist
1100–1150
Medium
handscroll, ink and slight color on silk
Dimensions
35.1 × 1103.8 cm · image: 35.1 × 213 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Chinese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the Hanna Fund
Accession Number
1953.126
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Streams and Mountains without End was a landmark acquisition of 1953, made just a year after Sherman Lee had returned to Cleveland as curator of Oriental art. He acquired it with the intention to provide "a more than adequate foundation for a fine collection of Chinese landscape painting." This impressive work demonstrates the culmination of stylistic developments in Chinese monumental landscape painting following the Northern Song tradition. It represents a journey through a landscape, making i...