Washing the Elephant

1. Chauncey McCormick (1884-1954) and Marion D. McCormick (1886-1965, born Marion Deering), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 14, 1943.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Kei Suzuki, comp. “Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings (Chûgoku kaiga sôgô suroku)”, vol. 1: American and Canadian Collections (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1982), pl. A3-018. (as Zhang Sengyou)
• -Osvald Siren, Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles (New York:Ronald Press, 1956-58), vol.IV,p.30 (as Qian Xuan attribution), vol. VI, pl. 31, vol. VII, Lists, p.108 under Qian Xuan. Rated “B?”. -“A similar picture was in the former National Museum, Peking (1928).”
• -James Cahill, An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1980), p. “Copy.”
• -Kokka 259
• Oertling, Sewell, "Ting Yun-peng..." Ph.D. diss. U. of Michigan, 1980, pp. 221-228 on subject of Washing the White Elephant (Sweeping the Elephant).
• Julia Andrews, The Significance of Style and Subject Matter in the Painting of Cui Zizhong, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1984, pp.202-205.
• Marsha Weidner ed., Latter Days of the Law (1994), p. 404.
• 王中旭, "传钱选《洗象图》真伪考辨——兼及晚明之前对《洗象图》的认识," 故宮博物院院刊 191, no. 3 (2017), pp. 118-120