An index of early Chinese painters and paintings: Tang, Sung, and Yüan: incorporating the work of Osvald Sirén and Ellen Johnston Laing

The present work and its planned continuations, two further volumes covering the Ming and Ch'ing periods, represent the latest in a succession of efforts to organize and index the great body of surviving Chinese paintings. Arthur Waley's An Index of Chinese Artists (London, 1922) was the first attempt in any language to provide students of Chinese art not only with a convenient guide to the painters, but also with lists of their published works. Waley's book was brief, covering only the limited number of reproduction books and other publications that had appeared by that date and were accessible to him. Corrections to it were published by Paul Pelliot in the same year (review in Toung- pao, XXI, 1922, pp. 322-62), and two supplements by Werner Speiser in 1931 and 1938 C,Erganzungen zu Waley's Index," Ostasiatische Zeitschrift, N.F. VII, 1931, pp. 124-29; and "Weitere Erganzungen zu Waley's Index," Ibid. XIV, 1938, pp. 230-39). In the meantime, Osvald Siren had begun his great work of gathering and organizing which, flawed in some respects though it was, laid a foundation for all later studies. His History of Later Chinese Painting (2 vols., London, 1938) contained "Lists of Paintings and Reproductions" arranged by artists, which were the forerunners of the far more extensive and ambitious "Annotated Lists of Chinese Paintings," published in 1956 and 1958 in Siren's seven-volume Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. Occupying the last third of volume II and the whole of volume VII, the Annotated Lists gave basic biographical information, with references to Chinese sources, and lists of published and known works, for some 1,250 artists from the Six Dynasties through the Ch'ing period. Preface Introduction I. Painters of the T'ang Period and Earlier II. Painters of the Five Dynasties III. Anonymous Paintings Ascribed to Periods before the Sung Buddhist and Taoist subjects Landscapes Figures, animals and other subjects IV. Painters of the Sung Dynasty V. Anonymous Sung Paintings Landscapes Palaces and temples Landscapes, buildings and figures Landscapes with figures Landscapes with figures, of the Ma Yuan type and tradition Fishing and boating scenes Horsemen, tartar scenes, etc. Scholarly gatherings Narrative, historical and legendary scenes Palace ladies and children Miscellaneous figures Portraits Portraits of priests Buddhas and bodhisattvas Other buddhist figures Arhats Ch'an buddhist subjects Taoist scenes Buffalo and herd boy pictures Monkeys and gibbons Dogs and cats Goats and sheep Other animals and fish Birds and birds-in-landscape compositions Flowers, fruit and insects VI. Painters of the Yuan Dynasty VII. Anonymous Yuan Paintings Buddhist and Taoist subjects Figures Palaces and buildings Landscapes Flowers, birds and animals Bibliography and Abbreviations [v. 1.] Tʾang, Sung, And Yüan. By James Cahill, Incorporating The Work Of Osvald Sirén And Ellen Johnston Laing. Chinese Title: Chung-kuo Ku-hua So-yin. Bibliography: P. 379-391.