Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Hsieh Shih-ch'en (Xie Shichen)
Title:
Old Tree and Bamboo (in the manner of Wu Chen (1280-1354))
Collection Title Date:
12th century - 20th century
Title Date:
1559
Place of Origin/Discovery:
China
Materials:
hanging scroll: ink on paper
Dimensions:
h 41 -1/4 x w 21 -1/2 inches
Current Location:
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
Address:
Berkeley, CA 94720
Object ID:
2002.1.3
Provenance:
Purchase made possible through a gift from an anonymous donor
Object Type:
Painting
Heading:
Description
Notes:
h: Ch'u-hsien
Notes:
Hsieh Shih-ch'en was from Suchou and spent most of his life painting there. His family was wealthy yet he appears to have become a professional painter in a town that was just beginning to gain prominence for both amateur and professional painters. It is recorded that he followed Shen Chou's style adding bits of his own and other professional painters' ideas to the mix. He is best known as a landscape painter with a very deft and versatile brush.
Notes:
t: Ssu-chung
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/ft2g5001r m

Old Tree and Bamboo (in the manner of Wu Chen (1280-1354))