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Reading Newspapers
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- Series
- (New) New Year Pictures Collection
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Hebei province › Beijing (place of publication)
- Date
- published 1951
- Artist/maker
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Wu Wei (born 1924) (artist)
- Associated people
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New Rongbaozhai (established 1949) (publisher)
- Material and technique
- multi-block woodcut, printed with water-soluble ink
- Dimensions
- print 25 x 33.8 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2006.
- Accession no.
- EA2006.283
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Further reading
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 15 on p. 20, p. xi, illus. p. 20
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum
Wu Wei graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1951, worked as editor and vice general secretary in the Beijing Branch of the Chinese Artists’ Association in Beijing and is well known as an ink painting artist.
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