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Michael Sullivan: A Life of Art and Friendship

(from 11th Mar until 14th Sep 2014)

A commemorative exhibition in memory of Michael Sullivan, leading scholar of Chinese art.

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Waiting for the ferry in shade of pine trees

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  • Description

    Michael Sullivan (1916-2013) started preparing a book on 20th century Chinese art after his sojourn in China in the 1940s. When all the research notes he had gathered in China went missing, Pang Xunqin (1906-1985), one of his artist friends, went to enormous trouble to provide him with essential information on Chinese art by soliciting his friends’ help. One result of Pang’s appeal was this exquisite landscape by Huang Binhong (1865-1955). It was sent to Michael in 1948 un-mounted, folded up very small, in an airmail letter from Shanghai. Huang Binhong was a leading figure in the revived Anhui School of landscape painting and had enormous influence on younger guohua ink painters. This painting was done in the early 1930s when the artist was on a sketching tour of the Sichuan province. The inscription reads ‘Waiting for the ferry in the shade of pine trees. A scene during my journey in Sichuan.’ Huang may have chosen this painting to give to Michael because he knew that the Sullivan’s had lived in the Sichuan province.

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    AsiaChina Sichuan province (subject)
    Date
    1932 - 1934
    Artist/maker
    Huang Binhong (1864 - 1955) (artist)
    Huang Binhong (1864 - 1955) (calligrapher)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    painting 35 x 26.3 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.
    LI2022.170
  • Further reading

    Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 53 on p. 88, illus. p. 88 fig. II.53

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