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Helping One Another at the Loom
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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 Yizhou (1923 - 1987) (artist)Jinan Art Society (active c. 1948) (printer)
- 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 40.5 cm (height x width)
print 20.1 x 29.1 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2006.
- Accession no.
- EA2006.278
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Further reading
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 10 on p. 15, p. xi, illus. p. 15
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum
Gu Yizhou began his artistic career when he joined the Eighth Route Army in 1937. Gu graduated in 1956 from a special class for cadres in the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Later he entered the Beijing Institute of Painting as a professional artist. He specialized in Chinese ink painting.
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