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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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River and mountain landscape

  • Literature notes

    Wu Hufan was from Suzhou in Jiangsu province, a grandson of the painter and prominent collector Wu Dacheng. His career was spent largely in Shanghai where he formed a distinguished collection of paintings, and was involved in many institutions and organisations devoted to calligraphy and painting. His own painting style has been regarded as innovative within the orthodox stream of the literati tradition.
  • Description

    The artist Wu Hufan inscribes: ‘Guo Xi (c. 1023- c. 1085) painted rocks as clouds, as Wang Yuanqi [1642-1715] once said. I have not seen Guo’s painting; I only saw Wang’s copy. Here I tentatively imitate it within the limits of Wang’s achievement. So comes the saying of “painting rocks as clouds”. I paint this for Mr Yunshi [literally “cloud-rock”]’.

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    May 1916
    Artist/maker
    Wu Hufan (1894 - 1968) (artist)
    copyist of Wang Yuanqi (1642 - 1715) (artist)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    81.28 x 40.64 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 1966.
    Accession no.
    EA1966.198
  • Further reading

    Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 136 on p. 159, illus. p. 159 fig. 136

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  • Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Shelagh Vainker

    Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Wu Hufan was from Suzhou in Jiangsu province, a grandson of the painter and prominent collector Wu Dacheng. His career was spent largely in Shanghai where he formed a distinguished collection of paintings, and was involved in many institutions and organisations devoted to calligraphy and painting. His own painting style has been regarded as innovative within the orthodox stream of the literati tradition.
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