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Peaks, mist and long views

Mountains

Mountains climbed, crossed and remembered. Shitao’s peaks of Mount Huang, painted from memory, Gong Xian’s wintry mountains in deep ink, Jeong Seon’s Mount Inwang, Fuji small beneath Hokusai’s great wave, Church’s Andes opening onto a waterfall, Cézanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire beyond a viaduct, and Vesuvius erupting into the night for Dahl. Ink from China, Korea and Japan, woodblock prints, and oil from America and Europe.

29 pictures, pick one to build

Heart of the Andes Frederic Edwin Church, 1859 Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1830–32 Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley Paul Cézanne, 1882–85 Hudson River Scene John Frederick Kensett, 1857 The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji'nan to Mount Tai Wang Hui and assistants, datable to 1698 Winter Landscape Kano Sansetsu 狩野山雪, second quarter of the 17th century Landscape of the Four Seasons (Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers) Sōami, early 16th century Mt. Inwang (Inwangsan) Jeong Seon, 18th century A View near Tivoli (Morning) Thomas Cole, 1832 Gudvangen Thomas Fearnley, 1839 Mountainous Landscape at Tivoli Simon Denis, ca. 1786–97 The Lake at Hakone in Sagami Province (Sōshū Hakone kosui), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1830–32 Wangchuan Villa Wang Yuanqi, dated 1711 Mountain Village in Spring Kano Hōgai, 1860s Landscape with Pavilion Kenkō Shōkei 賢江祥啓, 1478–80 Merced River, Yosemite Valley Albert Bierstadt, 1866 An Eruption of Vesuvius Johan Christian Dahl, 1824 Mountainous Landscape at Vicovaro Simon Denis, ca. 1786–97 Autumn Mountains Dong Qichang Mountain Landscape Soga Shōhaku, ca. 1761–63 Pavilion on Mountain Stream In the Style of Sesshū Tōyō 雪舟等楊, 17th century Sketch for View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow) Thomas Cole, 1836 Fortified Wall at Tivoli Simon Denis, ca. 1786–1806 The strange pines of Mount Tiantai Dai Benxiao, 1687 Landscape Formerly attributed to Sōami, 17th century Wintry mountains Gong Xian, ca. 1679–89 Landscape Follower of Sesson Shūkei, 16th century Thirty-six Peaks of Mount Huang Recollected Shitao (Zhu Ruoji), ca. 1705 Landscape of the Four Seasons Unkoku Tōgan, late 16th–early 17th century