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Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

A catalogue of the Ashmolean collection of Chinese paintings by Shelagh Vainker (published Oxford, 2000).

Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Shelagh Vainker

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Autumn landscape

  • Literature notes

    Zeng Youhe was born in Peking, and studied painting at Furen University. After graduation she stayed there as assistant to Pu Quan and Gustav Ecke, whom she later married. In 1949 she moved to Hawaii.
  • Description

    Zeng Youhe was born in Beijing, and studied painting at Furen University. After graduating, she became the assistant to Pu Jin (1893-1966) in his painting studio, and then to Gustav Ecke (1896-1971), whom she later married. The artist moved to Hawaii in 1948 and taught there for many years.

    The inscription on this painting reads: ‘In the autumn of wuzi year [1948] I saw this scene when passing by the Min River. Now I remember it and [paint it] using the ‘boneless’ technique from the Tang period’.

  • Details

    Associated place
    North Americanorth America United States of America (Hawaii) (place of creation)
    Date
    1949
    Artist/maker
    Zeng Youhe (born 1923) (artist)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    painting 44 x 52 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Zeng Youhe, 1950.
    Accession no.
    EAX.1245
  • Further reading

    Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 156 on p. 180, illus. p. 181 fig. 156

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