Watching the Deer by a Pine Shaded Stream by Ma Yuan China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) · 1127–1279 · Album leaf; ink and light color on silk
Bamboo and Ducks by a Rushing Stream by Ma Yuan China, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279) · 1127–1279 · hanging scroll; ink and light color on silk
Drinking in the Moonlight by Ma Yuan China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) · late 1100s–early 1200s · Album leaf; ink on silk
The Football Players by Ma Yuan China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) · c. late 1100s–1st quarter 1200s · Hanging scroll; ink and light color on silk
On a Mountain Path in Spring by Ma Yuan Southern Song · c. 1200 A lone scholar strolling at the bottom-left of an otherwise empty hanging — pine branch overhead, bird in flight. Ma Yuan's signature "one-corner" composition: let absence carry the scene.