# Water Pavilion by Twin Pines

- By: Guo Xi (Chinese, early 14th century)
- Date: Yuan or early Ming dynasty, 14th–15th century
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and light colors on paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 100.3 × 35.5 cm (39 1/2 × 14 in.)
- Culture: China
- Credit line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/105786)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/aa493ca1-f4d6-6ed2-d680-11da7a13736a/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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This landscape was attributed to the Northern Song court painter Guo Xi (c. 1001-c. 1090) by the authors of early 20th-century colophons that accompany the painting. The depiction of figures gazing out from two water pavilions at the foot of a rocky outcrop—as well as a dramatic clusters of old pine-trees and billowing, restless forms of mountain-ridges that rise from valleys into the high distance—are all features associated with Guo Xi’s iconic landscapes. The relatively looser composition and hybrid brushwork, however, point to a Yuan re-interpretation of this Northern Song style. A seal on the painting that may be associated with a Yuan scholar named Wu Fang supports this fourteenth-century date.

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