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Casting Beans as Ballots
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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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Gu Qun (born 1928) (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 20.1 x 29.1 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2006.
- Accession no.
- EA2006.276
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Further reading
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 8 on p. 13, p. xi, illus. p. 13
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum
Gu Qun first studied Western painting at the Peking National School of Art in 1944. She graduated from the Fine Art Department of Huabei United University in 1949. Later she worked at the Shandong Art College and the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Gu specialized in New Year pictures, stained glass and ceramics.
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