Drinking at Night

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of Asia

Ming dynasty (1368–1644); c. 1520/23

Tang Yin
Chinese, 1470-1523

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Tang Yin
Title: Drinking at Night
Place: China (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1520–1523
Medium: Handscroll; ink on paper
Inscriptions: Artist’s inscription: One year, 365 days, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, each has 90 days. Cold winter and hot summer are the most difficult time; when it gets cold as if cutting with a knife, hot as if roasting. In spring and autumn, the weather is good, but it gets lots of rain and wind. Through the year, there is only a few days with good weather. It is difficult to come upon a beautiful scenery. If you can have a beautiful scenery and good weather, what a enjoyable thing! Do not light a tall candle which shine the zun vessel of fragrant wine. That is a empty life in the world of men. The ancient people; encouraged to have a party at night with candles. Each minute of spring night is as valuable as thousand of gold, but I say that even with the thousands of gold, you cannot bring the spring night back again. Xianggong jinshi wujun Tang yin wrote. (Eun-wha Park:1989) -Frontipiece: "zhai qi" ( 摘奇 ) by Feng Fang （南隅外史豐坊) (although this once part of an album, not a handscroll) Seals of Geng Zhaozhong and Qing emperors -This scroll has the original silk wrapper from the Qing palace in the 18th century, inscribed by Zhang Zhao (1691-1745) in 1744; recorded in Shiqu baoji. Collectors’ seals Geng Zhaozhong, Xingong Jianding zhencang, Hanshui Genhuihou shuhua zhi zhang Tianshan Genxingong shuhua zhi zhang Zhanenji Huihou zhencang Huihou Zhizhang
Dimensions: 30.5 × 139.2 cm (12 × 55 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
Reference Number: 1955.761
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Zhang Zhao, et al., Shiqu baoji (1745; reprint, Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1971), vol. 2: 1086.
Chinese Art Society of American Museums, 1955, p. 66 & 79.Richard Barnhart, “Peach Blossom Spring” (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983), pp. 66, 68
Zhang Zhao, et al., Shiqu baoji (1745; reprint, Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1971), vol. 2: 1086.
Charles F. Kelley, “Chinese Paintings Acquired,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, April, 1956, p. 26
Jack Sewell, Ming-Ch’ing Dynasties [Exh. cat.] (AIC, 1964), p. (5)
Stephen Little, “Chinese Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Arts of Asia, May-June, 1999, Fig. 10.
Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings: Vol. 1 American and Canadian Collections, compiled by Kei Suzuki , by University of Tokyo Press, 1982; page I-34, 35, No. A 3–016.

The Art Institute of Chicago : Ming (1368-1644) Ching (1644-1921) dynasties Exhibition 1964

Dr. K.C. Wu, Evanston, IL. Wu Kuo-chen (1903-1984). Mayor of Shanghai, 1945-1949; mayor of Chongqing, 1939-1942; 3rd Chairman of Taiwan Provincial Government, 1949-1953. Moved to Evanston, 1954. Ph.D., Political Science, Princeton University, 1926.

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