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Peaks, mist and long views

Mountains

Mountains climbed, crossed and remembered. Shitao’s peaks of Mount Huang, painted from memory, Gong Xian’s wintry mountains in deep ink, Jeong Seon’s Mount Inwang, Fuji small beneath Hokusai’s great wave, Church’s Andes opening onto a waterfall, Cézanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire beyond a viaduct, and Vesuvius erupting into the night for Dahl. Ink from China, Korea and Japan, woodblock prints, and oil from America and Europe.

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Heart of the Andes Frederic Edwin Church, 1859 Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1830–32 Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley Paul Cézanne, 1882–85 Hudson River Scene John Frederick Kensett, 1857 The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji'nan to Mount Tai Wang Hui and assistants, datable to 1698 Winter Landscape Kano Sansetsu 狩野山雪, second quarter of the 17th century Landscape of the Four Seasons (Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers) Sōami, early 16th century Mt. Inwang (Inwangsan) Jeong Seon, 18th century A View near Tivoli (Morning) Thomas Cole, 1832 Gudvangen Thomas Fearnley, 1839 Mountainous Landscape at Tivoli Simon Denis, ca. 1786–97 The Honister Pass from Gatesgarth Farm, Gatesgarthdale, Lake District Edward Dayes, 1789–1804 Returning to the Mountains, Accompanied by Cranes Tanomura Chikuden, dated 1822 The Lake at Hakone in Sagami Province (Sōshū Hakone kosui), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1830–32 Wangchuan Villa Wang Yuanqi, dated 1711 Mountain Village in Spring Kano Hōgai, 1860s Landscape with Pavilion Kenkō Shōkei 賢江祥啓, 1478–80 Merced River, Yosemite Valley Albert Bierstadt, 1866 An Eruption of Vesuvius Johan Christian Dahl, 1824 Mountainous Landscape at Vicovaro Simon Denis, ca. 1786–97 Mountain Stream on a Summer Day Nakabayashi Chikutō, first half of the19th century Autumn Mountains Dong Qichang Mountain Landscape Soga Shōhaku, ca. 1761–63 Pavilion on Mountain Stream In the Style of Sesshū Tōyō 雪舟等楊, 17th century Sketch for View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow) Thomas Cole, 1836 Fortified Wall at Tivoli Simon Denis, ca. 1786–1806 Autumn Festival in the Mountains Okada Hankō, first half 19th century The strange pines of Mount Tiantai Dai Benxiao, 1687 Landscape Formerly attributed to Sōami, 17th century Nevada Falls, Yosemite Albert Bierstadt, 1872 or 1873 After Ike no Taiga’s “Horse Market in a Mountain Village” Watanabe Kazan, 1820s Wintry mountains Gong Xian, ca. 1679–89 Landscape Follower of Sesson Shūkei, 16th century View on the Catskill—Early Autumn Thomas Cole, 1836–37 Travels through Mountains and Fields Yosa Buson, ca. 1765 Thirty-six Peaks of Mount Huang Recollected Shitao (Zhu Ruoji), ca. 1705 Landscape of the Four Seasons Unkoku Tōgan, late 16th–early 17th century Canadian Rockies (Lake Louise) Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1889 The Colors of Mount Taihang Wang Hui, dated 1669 View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow Thomas Cole, 1836 Clearing after Rain over Streams and Mountains Wang Hui, dated 1662 The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak Albert Bierstadt, 1863 Sunrise on the Matterhorn Albert Bierstadt, after 1875 Mountain Scene Albert Bierstadt, 1880–90