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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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  • Literature notes

    Gu Yizhou began his artistic career when he joined the Eighth Route Army in 1937. Gu graduated in 1956 from a special class for cadres in the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Later he entered the Beijing Institute of Painting as a professional artist. He specialized in Chinese 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
    Gu Yizhou (1923 - 1987) (artist)
    Jinan Art Society (active c. 1948) (printer)
    Associated people
    New Rongbaozhai (established 1949) (publisher)
    International Bookstore (established 1949) (retailer)
    Material and technique
    multi-block woodcut, printed with water-soluble ink
    Dimensions
    mount 55.7 x 40.5 cm (height x width)
    print 20.1 x 29.1 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2006.
    Accession no.
    EA2006.278
  • Further reading

    Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 10 on p. 15, p. xi, illus. p. 15

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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

    Gu Yizhou began his artistic career when he joined the Eighth Route Army in 1937. Gu graduated in 1956 from a special class for cadres in the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Later he entered the Beijing Institute of Painting as a professional artist. He specialized in Chinese ink painting.
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