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Facts

Also Known As Ma Yüan
Born c.1160 or c.1165 • Hangzhou • China
Died 1225
Movement / Style Ma-Xia school • album leaf • ax stroke

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Ma Yuan: Scholar by a Waterfall
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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
Sesshū: Landscape of Four Seasons
Sesshū
Japanese artist
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Wang Hui
Chinese painter
Wang Meng: Scholar in a Pavilion Under Trees
Wang Meng
Chinese painter
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Yun Shouping
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
Huang Gongwang: Dwelling in the Fu-ch'un Mountains
Huang Gongwang
Chinese painter
Autumn in a River Valley, silk scroll in ink and colour by Guo Xi; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Guo Xi
Chinese painter
Wu Zhen: Fisherman
Wu Zhen
Chinese painter
Whispering Pines in the Mountains
Li Tang
Chinese painter
Sōtatsu: Genji monogatari: Miotsukushi
Sōtatsu
Japanese artist
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Kanō Motonobu
Japanese 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
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Lu Yanshao
Chinese painter
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Wang Wei
Chinese author and artist
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Liu Songnian
Chinese painter
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Li Keran
Chinese artist
Ni Zan: Maple Leaves Falling on the Wu River
Ni Zan
Chinese painter
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Jing Hao
Chinese artist
Zhu Da: Fish
Zhu Da
Chinese painter

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