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Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sullivan Collection

(from 24th Jul 2012 until 27th Jan 2013)

Explore this important collection of Chinese contemporary art formed by scholar Michael Sullivan.

Detail of Red, yellow, and black abstraction, Taiwan, 1995, by Chen Zhengxiong (Museum no. LI1486.8)
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Glorious Sunset

  • loan
  • Description

    Nancy Choo Woo moved as a child with her parents to Hong Kong. In 1963 she graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from Cornell University, and got her M.A. from Columbia University in 1964. She lives in Hong Kong where she has taught, and practises as an independent artist.

    Based on extract from Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009)

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaChina Hong Kong (place of creation)
    Date
    2007
    Artist/maker
    Nancy Chu Woo (born 1941) (artist)
    Material and technique
    ink and gouache on paper
    Dimensions
    page 80 x 82 cm (height x width)
    painting 60 x 62 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
    Accession no.
    LI1486.19
  • Further reading

    Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 52 on p. 259, illus. p. 259 fig. 52

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