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Michael Sullivan: A Life of Art and Friendship

(from 11th Mar until 14th Sep 2014)

A commemorative exhibition in memory of Michael Sullivan, leading scholar of Chinese art.

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River with waterwheel and cranes

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  • Description

    One of the major Lingnan School artists, Guan Shanyue (1912-2000) was born in Yangjiang, Guangdong province. During the 1930s, having graduated from Guangzhou Provincial College of Education, he studied painting with Gao Jianfu (1879-1951) at the Chunshui Art Studio in Guangzhou. During the Second World War (1939-1945) Guan lived in west China and became one of Michael Sullivan’s (1916-2013) artist friends. Guan exchanged lessons with Michael when they were in west China during the 1940s, teaching Michael Chinese painting while Michael taught him English. Michael had seen another version of this painting and admired it. The artist, however, could not part with that painting, so he painted this version to give to Michael. The inscription reads ‘Painted at the request of Mr Sullivan.’

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China › Sichuan province (place of creation)
    Date
    1946
    Artist/maker
    Guan Shanyue (1912 - 2000) (artist)
    Associated people
    Michael Sullivan (1916 - 2013) (recipient)
    Material and technique
    ink and watercolour on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 48.5 x 59.5 x 2 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 28.9 x 40.5 cm sight size (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
    Accession no.
    LI2022.27

  • Further reading

    Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 46 on p. 82, illus. p.83 fig. II. 46

    Sullivan, Michael, Art and Artists of Twentieth Century China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), fig. 5.4

    Sullivan, Michael, Chinese Art in the Twentieth Century (London: Faber, 1959), fig. 35

Past Exhibition

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Location

    • currently in research collection

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