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The Hour of Reckoning
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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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Mo Pu (1915 - 1996) (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
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mount 55.7 x 40.7 cm (height x width)
print 20 x 29.1 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2006.
- Accession no.
- EA2006.275
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Further reading
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 7 on p. 12, p. xi, illus. p. 12
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum
Mo Pu graduated from the Shanghai School of Art in 1933. He joined the Eighth Route Army in 1940 and later taught at the Lu Xun Academy of Literature and Arts and the Huabei United University. He began teaching at the National Art School (now called the China National Academy of Fine Arts) in 1949 and later became the head of the Academy. Mo Pu specialized in oil painting.
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