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Sichuan Plateau - Long March Roadfront

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Sichuan Plateau - Long March Road

  • loan

  • Description

    In 1954, Lin Gang studied painting in Leningrad and later became Professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. He was married to the artist Pang Tao. Although best known for his large modern historical paintings, such as his Funeral of Zhou Enlai (1977), Lin Gang liked to get away from Beijing, to retrace the route of the Long March of 1934-1935, sketching along the way. These oil sketches have a spontaneity and freedom that is lacking in his more monumental work.

    Based on extract from Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009)

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China › Sichuan province (Sichuan Plateau) (place of creation)
    Asia › China › Sichuan province (Sichuan Plateau) (subject)
    Date
    1978
    Artist/maker
    Lin Gang (born 1925) (artist)
    Material and technique
    oil on plywood
    Dimensions
    painting 34.4 x 36.8 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    organic › vegetal › wood › plywood
    Technique index
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting › oil painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
    Accession no.
    LI1486.15

  • Further reading

    Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 25 on p. 238, illus. p. 238 fig. 25

    Vainker, Shelagh, and Xin Chen, A Life in Chinese Art: Essays in Honour of Michael Sullivan (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), pp. 122-123, illus. p. 123

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    • currently in research collection

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