Awaiting the Ferry at an Autumn River

Object Details

• Artist

  Tan Jing (1911-1991) (forger)

  Forgery of Sheng Mou 盛懋 (ca. 1310-1360)

• Provenance

  From at least 1953 to 1954

  C. C. Wang (1907-2003), New York, from at least February 2, 1953 [1]

  From 1954

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased through Warren E. Cox & Associates, New York from C. C. Wang in February 1954 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] The painting was delivered to the Freer Gallery by Warren E. Cox, acting on behalf of C. C. Wang, on February 2, 1953, see “Chinese Paintings taken to the Freer Gallery of Art” list, dated February 2, 1953, copy in object file. The painting belongs to a group of copies made in the late 1940's by Tan Jing (1911-1991), a well-established Shanghai collector. The original painting is in the collection of the Shanghai Museum, see Xie Zhiliu, Tang, Wu dai,

  Song, Yuan ming ji (Shanghai, 1957), no. 29, pl. 100. See also Wen Fong, “The Problem of Forgeries in Chinese Painting: Part One,” Artibus Asiae vol. 25, no. 2/3 (1962), p. 110.

  [2] See Warren E. Cox & Associates’ s invoice, dated February 12, 1954.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  The Arts of China (November 18, 1990 to September 7, 2014)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics (March 7, 1957 to January 1, 1963)

  Centennial Exhibition, Gallery 18 (February 25, 1956 to February 4, 1957)

  Stone Sculpture, Buddhist Bronze, and Chinese Painting (May 2, 1923 to February 25, 1956)

• Previous custodian or owner

  C.C. Wang (China, 1907-2003; active United States)

  Warren E. Cox & Associates, Inc.

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

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• Date

  1940s

• Name

  Wang, C.C., Warren E. Cox & Associates, Inc.

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Water, Landscapes, Art, Autumn, Chinese Art, Forgery, Rivers, Modern period (1912 - present)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Paintings