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Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

A catalogue of Chinese paintings from the Reyes Collection by Shelagh Vainker (published Oxford, 1996).

Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Shelagh Vainker

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Landscape with crows

  • Literature notes

    Yang Shanshen, also known as Yang Shen-sum, followed Gao Jianfu and is known as one of the second generation of Lingnan School painters. His technique for painting trees and rocks is to use the split tip of a worn-out soft goat's hair brush, thus leaving blank areas within inkstrokes. The poem in the inscription is on the theme of crows, which can be seen here on the rock and in the upper branches of the tree.
  • Description

    Yang Shanshen, also known as Yang Shen-sum, followed Gao Jianfu (1879-1951) and is known as one of the artists in the second generation of the Lingnan School. His technique for painting trees and rocks was to use the split tip of a worn soft goat’s hairbrush, thus leaving blank areas within ink strokes. The inscription here on the theme of crows is modified from a poem by Xie Zhen, a Ming dynasty (1368-1644) poet. It reads ‘Vast wild fields reach the shore, the Zhang river flows eastwards by the city wall. Kitchen smoke spreads through the whole city at dusk; in the warm air a crowd of crows flies by.’

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaChina Hong Kong (place of creation)
    Date
    1913 - 1995
    Artist/maker
    Yang Shanshen (1913 - 2004) (artist)
    Yang Shanshen (1913 - 2004) (calligrapher)
    after Xie Zhen (1495 - 1575) (author)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    mount 178.2 x 48.5 cm approx. (height x width)
    painting 68.5 x 34.5 cm (height x width)
    along roller 56 cm (length)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
    Accession no.
    EA1995.272
  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 September-1 December 1996, Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Vainker, Shelagh (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1996), no. 108 on p. 80, illus. p. 81 fig. 108

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  • Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Shelagh Vainker

    Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Yang Shanshen, also known as Yang Shen-sum, followed Gao Jianfu and is known as one of the second generation of Lingnan School painters. His technique for painting trees and rocks is to use the split tip of a worn-out soft goat's hair brush, thus leaving blank areas within inkstrokes. The poem in the inscription is on the theme of crows, which can be seen here on the rock and in the upper branches of the tree.
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