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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