Tao Yiqing was born in Beijing and spent most of his career in north China. He studied traditional painting, graduating in 1934 from Jinghua College of Fine Arts in Beijing. He taught first in Kaifeng, Henan province and later in Beijing. In 1956 he was commissioned to paint the route of the Long March, and later other historical and revolutionary subjects. In 1961 he joined the faculty of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 124 on p. 143, illus. p. 143 fig. 124
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