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Guests of the Hills: Travelers and Recluses in Chinese Landscape Painting

Freer Gallery of Art presents an exhibition on the depictions of recluses and recreational travelers in Chinese landscape painting.

When:
August 23, 2008 12:00am to February 22, 2009 12:00am
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Guests of the Hills presents depictions of recluses and recreational travelers in Chinese landscape painting over a seven-hundred-year period, from the mid-eleventh to the mid-eighteenth century. Chinese landscape painting particularly appealed to members of the scholar-official class, who were intrigued by images of the free-roaming mountain sage or retired gentlemen living amid nature's beauty. Other works depict actual excursions or journeys, or they were created as a gift for someone about to embark on a trip.

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