Which Chinese handscroll by Huang Gongwang is a major masterpiece of Yuan-dynasty landscape painting?

Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains is the major Yuan-dynasty landscape handscroll by Huang Gongwang.

Huang Gongwang painted the work between 1348 and 1350 while living near the Fuchun River in Zhejiang. Rather than presenting one fixed viewpoint, the handscroll unfolds gradually as it is viewed from right to left, revealing hills, trees, water, and scattered dwellings.

The scroll was divided into two sections after a fire in 1650. The longer section, known as the “Remaining Mountain” segment, is in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum, while the shorter “Useless Shih Shan” segment is in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.

The work is central to the literati landscape tradition, which valued personal brushwork and cultivated expression. It is different from Fan Kuan’s monumental Northern Song painting, which uses a much more imposing vertical composition.