Marks Seal: Ch'ao hsi yu I chia Ming (In the beginning [Shen Chou] conferred on me the name Chia)
Inscription For half a lifetime I have strived to cultivate purity and clarity, when my dots and brushstrokes I suddenly viewed it seemed there was the equivalent; Smiling within a group of trees, beneath leaves of red, half-hidden by eaves from the setting sun, I study the rest of my book. Wen Chia
Provenance With Kaikodo America, Inc.; purchase in 2001 by the Birmingham Museum of Art
