Xia Gui

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Xia Gui
Detail from the hand scroll Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains, one of Xia Gui's most important works
Born	fl. 1195
Died	1224
Nationality	Chinese
Known for	Painting
Movement	Southern Song Dynasty, Ma-Xia School

Xia Gui (Chinese: 夏珪; Wade–Giles: Hsia Kui; fl. 1195–1224), courtesy name Yuyu (禹玉), was a Chinese landscape painter of the Song dynasty. Very little is known about his life, and only a few of his works survive, but he is generally considered one of China's greatest artists. He continued the tradition of Li Tang, further simplifying the earlier Song style to achieve a more immediate, striking effect. Together with Ma Yuan, he founded the so-called Ma-Xia (馬夏) school, one of the most important of the period.^{[citation needed]}

Although Xia was popular during his lifetime, his reputation suffered after his death, together with that of all Southern Song academy painters. Nevertheless, a few artists, including the Japanese master Sesshū, continued Xia's tradition for hundreds of years, until the early 17th century.^{[citation needed]}