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.
Trees on top of mountain peaks
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Description
Tang Yun from Zhejiang province is a largely self-taught painter whose style is based on the 17th and 18th century painters Shi Tao (1630-1724) and Hua Yan (1682-c.1756). In this traditional landscape the grandeur of the view is preserved in spite of the small size of the painting.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Shanghai province (place of creation)
- Date
- 1910 - 1993
- Artist/maker
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Tang Yun (1910 - 1993) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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frame 63.5 x 48.5 x 3 cm (height x width x depth)
painting 34.5 x 23.5 cm (height x width)
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- Technique index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
- Accession no.
- EA1995.247
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 September-1 December 1996, Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Vainker, Shelagh (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1996), no. 83 on p. 64, illus. p. 64 fig. 83
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Tang Yun (see cat.nos.28,67 [EA1995.293, EA1995.231.a, EA1995.231.b]) from Zhejiang province is a largely self-taught painter whose style is based on the 17th and 18th century painters Shi Tao and Hua Yan. In this traditional landscape the grandeur of the view is preserved in spite of the small size of the painting.
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