Gazing at Mountains from the Riverbank

ca. 1963

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This small work shows C.C. Wang engaging with the legacy of Shitao (1642–1707), one of his favorite painters. Wang adopts Shitao’s palette of dilute sienna and indigo, along with Shitao’s wetly applied contour lines, which bleed into the absorbent painter, evoking the humid, mist-suffused Yangzi Delta region where Wang was born.

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Title: Gazing at Mountains from the Riverbank
Artist: Wang Jiqian (C. C. Wang) (1907–2003)
Date: ca. 1963
Culture: China
Medium: Ink and color on Japanese paper pre-mounted on board
Dimensions: Image: 14 7/8 × 17 3/4 in. (37.8 × 45.1 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of Mark S. Pratt, 2017
Object Number: 2017.380
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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