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Water Pavilion by Twin Pines, Guo Xi, 1279, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art

This landscape was attributed to the Northern Song court painter Guo Xi (c. 1001-c. 1090) by the authors of early 20th-century colophons that accompany the painting. The depiction of figures gazing out from two water pavilions at the foot of a rocky outcrop—as well as a dramatic clusters of old pine-trees and billowing, restless forms of mountain-ridges that rise from valleys into the high distance—are all features associated with Guo Xi’s iconic landscapes. The relatively looser composition and hybrid brushwork, however, point to a Yuan re-interpretation of this Northern Song style. A seal on the painting that may be associated with a Yuan scholar named Wu Fang supports this fourteenth-century date. Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Fund Size: 100.3 × 35.5 cm (39 1/2 × 14 in.) Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and light colors on paper

by Guo Xi, Asian Art

Medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

by Guo Xi via Asian Art

Medium: Handscroll; ink on silk

John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY