Crane Chinese Scroll Painting – Silk Wall Art – Plum Blossom Rock

Collectors of crane art will like this one — a Chinese scroll painting with genuine charm. Painters never tired of the crane, and looking at this scroll, neither will you. The composition balances its subject with red-crowned crane, plum blossom and rock, so the scroll never feels empty or busy.

As a crane silk wall art, it sits comfortably alongside much older pieces without feeling like a copy. Like much classical Chinese art, it carries a wish inside the image — plum blossom opens in the cold, the emblem of perseverance. The coloring is mineral reds, in the mineral-pigment manner that ages gracefully. You can feel spring turning in it: fresh growth, returning birds, branches coming into flower. Part of the charm is the upright format — the scene reveals itself as your eyes travel down.

A frameless hanging scroll in the classic style — give it a wall and it becomes the room's calm center. A study, a tea room, a hallway you walk slowly — those are its places. It is a fine example of red-crowned crane and plum blossom Chinese painting, the kind of piece that grows on you.