A Bamboo Grove in Mist | Yale University Art Gallery

late 13th–14th century

Guan Daosheng, the author of a treatise on ink painting of bamboo, is one of the few female artists of this era—from anywhere in the world—whose name is known. She is noted for her integration of bamboo into larger landscape settings and for her delicate rendering of slightly wet leaves as the morning mist rises and dissipates. Seals, inscriptions, and eight poetic eulogies, some by famed individuals and collectors, dating from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, have been added to this handscroll, providing a history of its ownership and appreciation.

Medium: Hand scroll, ink on paper
Dimensions: image (Painting): 5 7/8 × 44 1/4 in. (14.9 × 112.4 cm)
image (First Colophon): 5 3/4 × 28 3/4 in. (14.6 × 73 cm)
image (Second Colophon): 5 7/8 × 8 1/8 in. (14.9 × 20.6 cm)
image (Third Colophon): 5 3/4 × 52 7/8 in. (14.6 × 134.3 cm)
image (Fourth Colophon): 5 7/8 × 11 in. (14.9 × 27.9 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1953.27.17
Geography: China
Culture: Chinese
Period: Yuan dynasty (1279–1368)
Classification: Paintings
Disclaimer: 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 records is ongoing.

Provenance

Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955) New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Karen Petersen and J. J. Wilson, Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal from the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century (New York: New York University Press, 1976), fig. VIII, 2

Berthold Laufer, T?ang, Sung and Yüan Paintings Belonging to Various Chinese Collections (Brussels: G. Van Oest, 1924), pl. XXVI

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

handscrolls, landscapes (representations)

Subject

bamboo (plant) groves

Inscriptions

Signed: Kuan Shih Tao-Sheng [Guan shi Daosheng]

Signed

Kuan Shih Tao-Sheng [Guan shi Daosheng]

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