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Title: Travelers on a Mountain Pass
Artist: Wu Wei
Physical Description: This large hanging scroll depicts a man on a donkey traveling along a mountain pass, accompanied by two other men and surrounded by huge overhanging craggy cliffs on both the left and right sides in the background with several overlapping vertical layers.
Artist Life Dates: 1459-1508
Century: 15th-16th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1490-1508
Accession Number: 1981/1.312
Medium and Support: Hanging Scroll, ink and light color on silk
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Title: Summer Retreat
Artist: Xie Shichen (Hsieh Shih-ch'en)
Physical Description: This is a very dense landscape painting. There are waterfalls, clouds, trees and cliffs present in the painting. The colors consist of muted greens and browns. Towards the lower half of the painting, there is a view of an interior with four figures present, three of which are sitting at a low table. There is a staircase on the lower right, with a man standing on it, looking upwards. There is also a house on a cliff towards the upper right of the painting. There is calligraphy in the upper right hand corner, with a red seal. There is another red seal, although a bit faded, in the lower left corner of the image.
Artist Life Dates: 1478- after 1567
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: mid 16th century
Accession Number: 1961/1.161
Medium and Support: hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk
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Title: A Han Dynasty Envoy Navigating on a Tree-Raft
Artist: Yu Zhiding (Yü Chih-ting)
Physical Description: This is a dense but muted landscape painting. The lines are very well defined. The colors consit of muted greens and browns, with a bid of red in some places. There is a river flowing through the center of the painting, running down the landscape and toward the viewer. There is a figure sitting on a gnarled tree-raft towards the bottom left of the painting, with another figure looking upon the scene from the opposite bank of the river. There are ornate buildings present toward the top of the panting. The viewer can see a lone figure in an interior covered by stylized clouds.
Artist Life Dates: 1647 - circa 1705
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: 1696
Accession Number: 1985/2.30
Medium and Support: hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk
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