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Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum

A catalogue of the Ashmolean’s collection of Chinese prints from 1950-2006 by Weimin He and Shelagh Vainker (published Oxford, 2007).

Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum by Weimin He and Shelagh Vainker

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Greeting the New Year

  • Literature notes

    Zhang Ding studied Chinese painting in 1932 at the Peking School of Arts. He went to Nanjing in 1936 as a cartoonist and to Yan’an in 1938. He taught at the Lu Xun Academy of Literature and Arts and from 1957 was head of the Central Academy of Art and Design in Beijing. Zhang specialized in design, mural and ink painting.
  • Details

    Series
    (New) New Year Pictures Collection
    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    AsiaChinaHebei province Beijing (place of publication)
    Date
    published 1950
    Artist/maker
    Zhang Ding (1917 - 2010) (artist)
    Associated people
    New Rongbaozhai (established 1949) (publisher)
    International Bookstore (established 1949) (retailer)
    Material and technique
    multi-block woodcut, printed with water-soluble ink
    Dimensions
    print 20.2 x 29 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2006.
    Accession no.
    EA2006.274
  • Further reading

    Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 6 on p. 11, p. xi, illus. p. 11

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  • Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum by Weimin He and Shelagh Vainker

    Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum

    Zhang Ding studied Chinese painting in 1932 at the Peking School of Arts. He went to Nanjing in 1936 as a cartoonist and to Yan’an in 1938. He taught at the Lu Xun Academy of Literature and Arts and from 1957 was head of the Central Academy of Art and Design in Beijing. Zhang specialized in design, mural and ink painting.
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