'Landscape Painting in the East and West,' April 17, 1986–June 1, 1986. Elliott Collections of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting at the Art Museum, Princeton University,' April 15–June 17, 1984. 'Images of the Mind: Selections from the Edward L. 'Song and Yuan Paintings,' November 7, 1975–January 4, 1976. 'Song and Yuan Paintings: Exhibition of Newly Acquired Chinese Paintings,' November 1, 1973–January 20, 1974.

'Chinese Art Under the Mongols,' January 9, 1969–February 2, 1969. 'Chinese Art Under the Mongols,' October 1, 1968–November 4, 1968. Fong, Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy 8th – 14th Century (New York, 1992), p. 1736–95) Shiqu baoji 石渠寶笈 Qianlong yulan zhi bao 乾隆御覽之寶 Qianlong jianshang 乾隆鑑賞 Chunhua Xuan 淳化軒 Chunhua Xuan tushu zhenmibao 淳化軒圖書珍秘寶 Qianlong chenhan 乾隆宸翰 Xintian Zhuren 信天主人 Sanxi Tang jingjian xi 三希堂精鑑璽 Yi zisun 宜子孫 Chen Kuilin 陳夔麟 (1855–1928) Kuilin 夔麟 Xu An 徐安 (20th c.) Xu An 徐安 Wang Jiqian 王季遷 (1907–2003) Jiqian xinshang 季遷心賞 Tan Jing 譚敬 (1911–1991) Tan Jing 譚敬 Zhang Heng 張珩 (1915–1961) Xiyi 希逸 Unidentified: Zisun baozhi 子孫保之 Translation from Wen C. 1746) Yizhou jianshang 儀周鑑賞 Qing emperor Qianlong清帝乾隆 (r. Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 (1525–1590), inventory character: Qi 豈 2. On the thirteenth of the twelfth lunar month of the xinhai year, I paid a visit to the lofty hermit Bowan and painted the Woods and Valleys of Mount Yu with a poem in five-character lines as a memento of this trip.

The joyous feelings of this day Will linger long after we have parted. We watch the clouds and daub with our brushes We drink wine and write poems. The water from the well in Yan You’s neighborhood is sweet and cool, Whereas Yuzhong's shrine is desolate from neglect. Inscription: Artist’s inscription and signature (6 columns in standard script) Chen Fan (active mid-2nd c.) prepared a bed Only when Xu Ru (active mid-2nd c.) came for a visit. To experts illuminate this artwork's story There is a tranquil luminous quality about the painting that makes it one of the most fully realized works of the artist's later years. The dry but tender brushwork is aloof and restrained.

The poem ends with the lines: We watch the clouds and daub with our brushes We drink wine and write poems. Wearing a yellow cap and country clothes, he roamed the lakes and mountains, leading a recluse's life.' Woods and Valleys of Mount Yu, executed two years before Ni Zan's death, expresses the painter's contentment in the life of a recluse. Having lost or given away everything he ever owned, he did his best to forget his worries. According to his epitaph writer, Zhou Nanlao (1308–1383), 'in his late years, he became quieter and more withdrawn than ever. Even after the establishment of the Ming dynasty in 1368, Ni continued the life of a wanderer, visiting old haunts that he had not seen for twenty or thirty years. In 1366, Ni Zan abandoned his home to escape marauding soldiers.

Zhang jing brushes