Showing Mountains of the Mind: A Chinese Landscape Journey, at Asian Art Museum

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Wang Jian, Thousand Trees on Azure Peaks in the Style of Dong Yuan, 1668
Wang Jian, Thousand Trees on Azure Peaks in the Style of Dong Yuan, 1668. Ink on paper. Asian Art Museum, Museum purchase, B69D2. Photograph © Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.

Mountains of the Mind: A Chinese Landscape Journey

Asian Art Museum

Dec 13, 2025 – Oct 26, 2026 Civic Center

Landscapes by Chinese ink painters, historical and contemporary.

The selection draws on the tradition of mountain worship and on Daoist thought, in which peaks, water and cloud are imagined as a living body. It includes Wang Jian’s Thousand Trees on Azure Peaks in the Style of Dong Yuan, painted in 1668.

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