石渠寶笈初編(重華宮),下冊,頁729-731&*故宮書畫錄(卷八),第四冊,頁164&*沈周(西元一四二七-一五○九年),江蘇長洲人。字啟南,號石田,又稱白石翁。為人寬厚有度,能詩工書,又善畫,作品造型雅拙,用筆鈍勁,用墨厚重,予人質樸有力,古趣盎然之感。為明四大家之首。本幅畫老樹高聳,樹下平坡坐一高士垂釣,點葉筆墨極為老辣,對山峰石渾融,岸邊橫筆數抹以現水紋。由於畫在小幅灑金箋扇面上,更顯筆簡意周,墨色酣暢。本幅選自「明畫扇集冊」第一開。 &*Fishing under a Shady Tree Shen Chou (1427-1509) Ming Dyasty Shen Chou (style name Ch'i-nan; sobriquets Shih-t'ien and Pai-shih-weng) was a native of Ch'ang-chou, Kiangsu. A man of broad and profound character, he was skilled at poetry and calligraphy, and especially gifted at painting. In his works, the forms have a quality of elegant naivete. He wielded the brush with force and bluntness, using rich, thick ink. His works convey a quality of forceful plainness as well as an abundantly archaic flavor. Shen Chou became known as one of the Four Great Masters of the Ming. This is a painting of a foreground scene with a lofty old tree, below which sits a scholar fishing on a level bank. The dots of leaves and brushwork are extremely sharp. The moist mountain peak and rocks on the opposite shore blend together, and several horizontal brushstrokes hugging the bank represent water ripples. The painting was done on a small fan speckled with gold leaf, thus revealing the plain yet complete brushwork and the fluid quality of the ink. Shen Chou has combined elements of the styles of Yüan (1279-1368) artists Huang Kung-wang and Wu Chen and created a variation of them.&*1.江兆申,〈沈周樹陰垂釣 扇〉,收入國立故宮博物院編,《吳派畫九十年展》(臺北:國立故宮博物院,1975年初版,1976年再版,1981年三版),頁298。 2.本社,〈明沈周樹陰垂釣〉,《故宮文物月刊》,第40期(1986年7月),頁1。