Mount Qingcheng

dated 1942

Not on view

For more than two millennia, the Chinese intellectual tradition has celebrated the act of reclusion, especially in moments of political turmoil. This is the path Shanghai-born artist Lu Yanshao chose in 1942, when he traveled from Chongqing, the wartime capital of the Republican government of China, to Mount Qingcheng, a center of Daoist practice further inland. Lu’s poem, which he inscribed at the top of the painting, describes the serenity and restorative power of Qingcheng; left unspoken are the horrors of war from which Lu sought respite.

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現代　陸儼少　青城圖　軸
Title: Mount Qingcheng
Artist: Lu Yanshao (Chinese, 1909–1993)
Period: Republic period (1912–49)
Date: dated 1942
Culture: China
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions: Image: 55 1/2 × 18 5/16 in. (141 × 46.5 cm)
Overall with mounting: 98 7/16 × 25 3/16 in. (250 × 64 cm)
Overall with knobs: 98 7/16 × 29 1/8 in. (250 × 74 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of Jane DeBevoise and the Calello Family, 2024
Object Number: 2024.549.23
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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