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Greeting the New Year
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Details
- Series
- (New) New Year Pictures Collection
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Hebei province › Beijing (place of publication)
- Date
- published 1950
- Artist/maker
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Zhang Ding (1917 - 2010) (artist)
- Associated people
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New Rongbaozhai (established 1949) (publisher)International Bookstore (established 1949) (retailer)
- Material and technique
- multi-block woodcut, printed with water-soluble ink
- Dimensions
- print 20.2 x 29 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2006.
- Accession no.
- EA2006.274
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Further reading
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 6 on p. 11, p. xi, illus. p. 11
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum
Zhang Ding studied Chinese painting in 1932 at the Peking School of Arts. He went to Nanjing in 1936 as a cartoonist and to Yan’an in 1938. He taught at the Lu Xun Academy of Literature and Arts and from 1957 was head of the Central Academy of Art and Design in Beijing. Zhang specialized in design, mural and ink painting.
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