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The Old Shepherd
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- Date
- 1957
- Artist/maker
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Yan Han (1916 - 2011) (printmaker)
- Material and technique
- woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
- Dimensions
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sheet 66.5 x 62 cm (height x width)
print 50 x 43 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2007.
- Accession no.
- EA2007.64
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Further reading
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 28 on p. 36, p. xii, illus. p. 36
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum
Those exquisite inspirations of mine, often come from grief and misfortune.
In 1935 Yan Han began studying Chinese and Western art at the National Art School, Hangzhou (now called the China National Academy of Fine Arts). After the outbreak of the war against the Japanese invasion of 1938, he moved to Yan’an to study woodblock printmaking at the Lu Xun Academy of Literature and Arts. As a soldier, artist and art teacher, during the following years he went to Taihang Mountains, Shenyang and Hangzhou until 1951 when he was appointed to teach art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. After his return from the Korean War in the early 1950s, he established the Printmaking Department in the CAFA. His early work reflects China’s turbulent social changes, and since the 1980s his style has turned to abstraction.
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