Streams and Mountains Without End, 1100–1150, late Northern Song-Jin dynasty (960–1234). Handscroll, ink and slight color on silk; 35.1 x 1,103.8 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1953.126. 

The portrayal of the distant lands is rich with details like pavilions, villages, and human activities.

Streams and Mountains without End was a landmark acquisition of 1953, made just a year after Sherman Lee had returned to Cleveland as curator of Oriental art. He acquired it with the intention to provide "a more than adequate foundation for a fine collection of Chinese landscape painting." This impressive work demonstrates the culmination of stylistic developments in Chinese monumental landscape painting following the Northern Song tradition. It represents a journey through a landscape, making it a fitting metaphor for Lee’s journey of discovery and achievement over a lifetime.