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Also Known As Tai Chin • Wenjin
Born 1388 • China
Died 1462 (aged 74)
Movement / Style Zhe school

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Life on the River, detail of paper scroll in ink and colour by Dai Jin, mid 15th century; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains, detail of hand scroll in ink and paper by Xia Gui, early 13th century (Southern Song); in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
Xia Gui
Chinese artist
Ma Yuan: Scholar by a Waterfall
Ma Yuan
Chinese painter
Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mi Fu
Chinese artist
Lu Yanshao
Chinese painter
Wang Wei
Chinese author and artist
Liu Songnian
Chinese painter
Li Keran
Chinese artist
Wang Hui
Chinese painter
Ni Zan: Maple Leaves Falling on the Wu River
Ni Zan
Chinese painter
Jing Hao
Chinese artist
Zhu Da: Fish
Zhu Da
Chinese painter
Wang Meng: Scholar in a Pavilion Under Trees
Wang Meng
Chinese painter
Yun Shouping
Chinese painter
Li Gonglin
Chinese painter
Buddhist Monastery by Streams and Mountains, hanging scroll attributed to Juran, second half of the 10th century; in the Cleveland (Ohio) Museum of Art.
Juran
Chinese painter
Voyage to the South, detail of a handscroll by Tang Yin, 1505; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Tang Yin
Chinese painter
Li Sixun
Chinese painter
Gardening, painting in ink and colour by Shen Zhou; in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri.
Shen Zhou
Chinese painter
Hongren
Chinese painter
Huang Gongwang: Dwelling in the Fu-ch'un Mountains
Huang Gongwang
Chinese painter

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