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Reforming Rascals
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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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Wang Shikuo (1911 - 1973) (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 55.6 x 40.5 cm (height x width)
print 20.5 x 29.8 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2006.
- Accession no.
- EA2006.282
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Further reading
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 14 on p. 19, p. xi, illus. p. 19
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum
Wang Shikuo first studied art at the Aimei Teachers’ Training School in Jinan, and later in Peking and Shanghai. Wang further studied art in Japan during 1935–37 and on his return moved to Yan’an. In 1949, he taught at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Wang is well known for his oil paintings.
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