Ashmolean Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

Lu Xun (LI2022.382)    Autumn Forest at Dawn (LI2022.23)    Riverside scene, Suzhou (LI2022.148)

Chicks (LI2022.423)    Zhong Kui out on an excursion with his sister (LI2022.132)    Living World Series: fish (LI2022.169)

The Celestial Penglai (LI2022.185)    Another Residence (LI2022.243)    The Silver Look of Trees (LI2022.10)

Blue abstraction (LI2022.28)    Blue and purple abstract landscape (LI1486.5)    Untitled (LI2022.7)

Huangshan (LI1486.7)    Eulogy for Michael Sullivan (LI2022.100)    Roses in a glass vase (LI2022.255)

Portrait of Michael Sullivan (EA2012.20)

Letter from Pang Xunqin to Michael

13th July 1979

The contacts between Michael Sullivan and his artist friends were interrupted due to the unsettled political situation in the 1950s and 1960s in China. Their contacts were only resumed in the late 1970s, when China started to reform and open up. In this letter Pang Xunqin wrote that he had not heard anything about Michael and Khoan Sullivan’s visits to China in the 1970s. He also did not know that Michael had moved to and was teaching in the US. He only started to receive letters from Michael from the editorial department of Meishu magazine in 1979. Pangwrote about his life after their parting 30 years previously. He understood that Michael was visiting Beijing in October in the same year and he was looking forward to seeing him.

Menu of Beijing dinner 1980

1980

In 1980, Michael was invited by the Chinese Artists’ Association to visit China again. A dinner was arranged on the evening they arrived, at which they saw a number of old artist friends whom they had not seen for 34 years. Displayed here is the menu of the dinner that evening, on which artists who were present signed their names for Michael as a memento. The signatures include (from top to bottom, left to right): Pang Xunqin, Xin Guoxun (born 1933), Wu Zuoren (1908-1997), Xiao Shufang (1911-2005), Yang Gengxin (born 1941), Yu Feng (1916-2007), Jiang Yousheng (born 1921), and Ding Cong.

Kangle Restaurant menu.    Kangle Restaurant menu with artist signatures.