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Fan Kuan/Guo Xi Hanging Scrolls, 2016
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
- Title
- Fan Kuan/Guo Xi Hanging Scrolls
- Dates
- 2016
- Quantity
- 2 hanging scrolls
- Collection Number
- OLPb162FAN
- Summary
- Reproductions of Fan Kuan's "Travellers Among the Mountains and Streams" and Guo Xi's "Early Spring" (11th century landscape paintings).
- Repository
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Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives
Aubrey R. Watzek Library
615 S. Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR
97219
Telephone: 5037687758
Fax: 5037687282
archives@lclark.edu - Access Restrictions
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This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Fan Kuan was one of the leading figures of Northern Song (960-1127) landscape art, and his "Travellers among Mountains and Streams" is one of the greatest Chinese paintings. His work introduced the principle of sanfen gefa--the three-division method in which foreground, middleground, and background occupy distinct spheres.
Guo Xi was Scholar of Arts at the Hanlin Painting Academy, where he was prolific as both a painter and theorist. Many of his works are lost because they were painted directly on the sides of buildings."Early Spring" (1072) fuses multiple perspectives in a representation of the ideal landscape. His treatise "Linquan gaozhi" (1117) defended objectivity and verisimilitude against the rise of subjectivism in the work of Mi Fei and others.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
2 hanging scrolls (boxed)
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections.
Preferred Citation
Fan Kuan/Guo Xi Hanging Scrolls, Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box | ||
| 1 | Fan Kuan, "Travellers Among Mountains and Streams" [reproduction] Torinokogami, satin, and ebony;
187 x 67 cm.
|
Undated [ca. 2016; original 11th c.] |
| 2 | Guo Xi, "Early Spring" [reproduction] Torinokogami, satin, and ebony;
179 x 84 cm.
|
Undated [ca. 2016; original 11th c.] |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Personal Names
- Fan, Kuan, approximately 956-approximately 1026 (creator)
- Guo, Xi, active 11th century (creator)
Geographical Names
- Henan Sheng (China).
- Shaanxi Sheng (China).
Form or Genre Terms
- Landscape paintings
- Paintings--Reproductions
- Scrolls (visual works)
E.J. Carter
2016
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
