Landscape with great pine

Ma Lin Chinese

Not on view

Like his father Ma Yuan, Ma Lin worked primarily in small formats, especially fans and albums. In this work, Ma Lin followed his father’s compositional approach: filling one corner of the composition, he left the upper left of the silk surface untouched save for the full moon that illuminates the scene. While the image can stand on its own, it might originally have been part of a series of related images in a multi-leaf album.

On view from August 12, 2023–January 7, 2024

Landscape with great pine, Ma Lin (Chinese, ca. 1180– after 1256), Album leaf; ink and color on silk, China

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