Geese Landing on Sandbars / Chang Ku-nien
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.142
- Title
- Geese Landing on Sandbars
- Artist
- Chang Ku-nien
- Artist Nationality
- Chinese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1906-1987
- Medium and Support
- ink and color on paper
- Object Creation Date
- last quarter of 20th century
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Michigan (state)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Michigan (state)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Ted and Syauchen Baker
- Dimensions
- 75 cm x 41 cm (29 1/2 in. x 16 1/8 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- hanging scroll
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- bird and flower
- Physical Description
- A scene of geese in pond and on sandbars. The geese are congregated in the lower left hand side of the painting, as are most of the reeds growing from the sand bars. Some geese can also be seen flying in the middle of the painting, though they are not as prominent. Five lines of calligraphy are lcoated in the upper right of the painting.
- Subject Matter
- The colophon is a poem by Wang Baigu. The scene is a description of the poem, which visualized the poem and at the same time makes the painting poetic. The poem describes a group of geese lingering in the reeds. Geese were a common metaphor for homesickness in Chinese art and literature. Chang must have been familiar with the feeling of homesickness, which suffuses this twilight scene of water, sandbars, and birds.
- Secondary Keywords
- relation to water
- animals and creatures
- birds
- buildings and the land
- coating (material)
- coating by form
- descriptors
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by position
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by function
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- paintings
- paintings by form
- scroll paintings
- settlements and landscapes
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1914 x 3507
- File Size
- 200 KB
- Record
- 2006/1.142
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2006-sl-1.142/2006_1.142.jpg
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"Geese Landing on Sandbars; Chang Ku-nien." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2006-sl-1.142/2006_1.142.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 30, 2024.