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Asian Art
Artist: Qi Baishi, Chinese, 1864–1957
Sails on the Yangzi River
ca. 1941
Hanging scroll, framed: ink on paper
with mounting: 87 1/4 × 17 1/2 in. (221.62 × 44.45 cm)
without mounting: 51 1/8 × 13 in. (129.86 × 33.02 cm)
without mounting: 51 1/8 × 13 in. (129.86 × 33.02 cm)
Bequest of Mary Griggs Burke in memory of her father Theodore Wright Griggs, B.A. 1895
2014.104.10
Geography:
China
Culture:
Chinese
Period:
Republican period (1912–49)
Classification:
Paintings
Provenance:
Mi Chou Gallery, New York; sold to Mary Griggs Burke (1916–2012), New York; bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2014
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions 2015,” http://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2015_updated%2012_16_15.pdf (accessed December 1, 2015).
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.