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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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Snow on Streams and Mountains

  • Literature notes

    Wu Guxiang, whose works are now quite rare, was one of the leading Orthodox School painters in Shanghai, and his landscape style derives ultimately from the Ming masters Wen Zhengming (1470-1559) and Tang Yin (1470-1523). He is known to have painted sets of seasonal landscapes and this winter scene may belong to such a group. The inscription discusses past theories of landscape painting.
  • Description

    Wu Guxiang was one of the leading painters of the Orthodox School in Shanghai. His landscape style is said to derive from the Ming masters Wen Zhengming (1470-1559) and Tang Yin (1470-1523).

    The inscription on this painting, however, quotes the Qing master Yun Shouping (1633-1690): ‘You must grasp the spirit of freezing coldness. Its appearance is solemn, and its light is dim. It accumulates layers after layers, and you can follow the trace to a new realm of enjoyment. The breath of coldness floats over tables and chairs, and the fierce storm starts from the tip of a hair. You must get the similarity of the spirit, and take the shape of the nature. This can be used to describe the painting of snow.’

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaChinaJiangsu province Suzhou (place of creation)
    Date
    November 1900
    Artist/maker
    Wu Guxiang (1848 - 1903) (artist)
    Wu Guxiang (1848 - 1903) (calligrapher)
    after Yun Shouping (1633 - 1690) (author)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 185.4 x 54.3 x 2.2 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 146.8 x 38.2 cm (height x width)
    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.
    EA1995.253
  • 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. 88 on p. 67, p. 10, illus. p. 67 fig. 88

    Vainker, Shelagh, ‘Modern Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum’, Oriental Art, 42/3, (Autumn 1996), p. 3, illus. p. 2 fig. 1

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