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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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Sails on the Autumn River

  • Literature notes

    Huang Junbi was born in Nanhai, Guangdong province. At the age of twenty he began studying at the Chu Ting Art Institute in Canton, where he subsequently taught, and later moved to Nanjing. In 1934 he studied in Japan, an in 1941 became head of the Chinese painting department at the National Art Academy. He moved in 1949 to Taiwan, where he became well-known as a landscape painter and was Professor and head of the art department at National Taiwan Normal University.
  • Description

    Huang Junbi was born in Nanhai, Guangdong province. He began to study painting at the age of 20 in Guangdong and later in Nanjing and Japan. In 1941 he became head of the Chinese painting department at the National Art Academy. In 1949 he moved to Taiwan, where he became well-known as a landscape painter. He was also Professor and head of the art department at National Taiwan Normal University. Huang Junbi was highly skilled in landscape paintings, in which he used traditional tight compositions to depict mountains, rivers, and clouds. This hanging scroll represents a classic meandering Chinese landscape painting composition, with mountains shaded by intermittent clouds and on the Jialing River with boats in the distance.

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    AsiaChina Jialing River (probable place of creation)
    AsiaChina Jialing River (subject)
    Date
    1946
    Artist/maker
    Huang Junbi (1898 - 1991) (artist)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    mount 197 x 66.2 cm (height x width)
    painting 96 x 49.7 cm (height x width)
    along roller 75.3 cm (length)
    rolled 6.2 cm (diameter)
    Material index
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 1963.
    Accession no.
    EA1963.18
  • Further reading

    Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 48 on p. 70, illus. p. 71 fig. 48

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

    Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Huang Junbi was born in Nanhai, Guangdong province. At the age of twenty he began studying at the Chu Ting Art Institute in Canton, where he subsequently taught, and later moved to Nanjing. In 1934 he studied in Japan, an in 1941 became head of the Chinese painting department at the National Art Academy. He moved in 1949 to Taiwan, where he became well-known as a landscape painter and was Professor and head of the art department at National Taiwan Normal University.
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