# Retreat on an Autumn Day, in Cursive Script

- By: Zhu Yunming (Chinese, 1460–1527)
- Date: 1523
- Medium: Handscroll; ink on paper
- Classification: Calligraphy
- Dimensions: height: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.); Calligraphy section: 514.2 cm (202 7/16 in.); Roll: 34.6 x 8.3 cm (13 5/8 x 3 1/4 in.)
- Culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
- Credit line: Gift of the Gracious Pine Studio Collection
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2025.192)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2025.192/2025.192_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This masterwork of calligraphy by Zhu Yunming from Suzhou combines two poems by the artist in cursive script style, characterized by its uninhibited, swift, and intuitive brushwork, so powerful that it here dissolved characters into dots or lines. Written from right to left and top to bottom and alternating in light dry to deep saturated ink, single characters may take a whole column or extend into the next one. Following the movement of the brush, they seem to dance over the paper.