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Landscape in heavy snow
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Description
Dong Shouping was born in Hongdong, Shanxi province. He studied in Tianjin and Beijing and was initially a bird and flower painter. Later he concentrated on landscape painting, and Mount Huang in Anhui province proved to be one of his favourite subjects. In 1953 Dong joined the staff of the Rongbaozhai Studio in Beijing.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Hebei province › Beijing (probable place of creation)
- Date
- 7 February 1964
- Artist/maker
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Dong Shouping (1904 - 1997) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink on paper; mounted on layers of paper, framed with ling silk pieces; backed with paper scroll
- Dimensions
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mount 198 x 61 cm (height x width)
painting 85 x 46.5 cm (height x width)
along roller 69 cm (length)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1965.
- Accession no.
- EA1965.245
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Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 18 on p. 40, illus. p. 41 fig. 18
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
Dong Shouping was born in Hongtong, Shanxi province. He studied in Beijing and was initially a bird and flower painter. Later he concentrated on landscape painting; Mt. Huang in Anhui province proved to be a favourite subject. In 1953 he joined the stafff of the Rongbaozhai (studio) in Beijing.
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