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