Chinese Landscapes from the Ashmolean Collection
(from 9th Feb until 21st Jul 2013)Explore the continued tradition of Chinese landscape painting in this complement to the Xu Bing show.
Autumn landscape
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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’.
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Details
- Associated place
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North America › north America › United States of America (Hawaii) (place of creation)
- Date
- 1949
- Artist/maker
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Zeng Youhe (born 1923) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
- painting 44 x 52 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Zeng Youhe, 1950.
- Accession no.
- EAX.1245
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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
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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.
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