Cloud-Climbing Pavilion, from Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou by Shen Zhou, after 1490. Album leaf; ink on paper or ink and slight color on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art.
Cloud-Climbing Pavilion, from Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou · Shen Zhou · after 1490 · Cleveland Museum of Art

Cloud-Climbing Pavilion, from Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou

Shen Zhou

Year
after 1490
Medium
Album leaf; ink on paper or ink and slight color on paper
Collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
License
Public Domain

Shen Zhou’s ‘Cloud-Climbing Pavilion, from Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou’ is part of the ‘Twelve Views of Tiger Hill’ series. Painted after 1490, it captures a scene from Suzhou. The work is an album leaf in ink on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art.

The painting, ink on paper, measures as an album leaf. It shows a pavilion amid a mountainous landscape, typical of Ming dynasty aesthetics. The use of ink suggests a monochrome palette with minimal color.

Shen Zhou was a Ming dynasty artist known for landscape paintings. He was born in 1427 and died in 1509. His works often reflect the literati ideals of simplicity and elegance.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.371.12

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