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Sails on the Autumn River
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Description
Huang Junbi was born in Nanhai, Guangdong province. He began to study painting at the age of 20 in Guangdong and later in Nanjing and Japan. In 1941 he became head of the Chinese painting department at the National Art Academy. In 1949 he moved to Taiwan, where he became well-known as a landscape painter. He was also Professor and head of the art department at National Taiwan Normal University. Huang Junbi was highly skilled in landscape paintings, in which he used traditional tight compositions to depict mountains, rivers, and clouds. This hanging scroll represents a classic meandering Chinese landscape painting composition, with mountains shaded by intermittent clouds and on the Jialing River with boats in the distance.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Jialing River (probable place of creation)Asia › China › Jialing River (subject)
- Date
- 1946
- Artist/maker
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Huang Junbi (1898 - 1991) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 197 x 66.2 cm (height x width)
painting 96 x 49.7 cm (height x width)
along roller 75.3 cm (length)
rolled 6.2 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1963.
- Accession no.
- EA1963.18
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Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 48 on p. 70, illus. p. 71 fig. 48
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Lingnan Masters: South Chinese Painting in Transition 1800–2000
(from 6th Aug 2013 until 23rd Feb 2014)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Huang Junbi was born in Nanhai, Guangdong province. At the age of twenty he began studying at the Chu Ting Art Institute in Canton, where he subsequently taught, and later moved to Nanjing. In 1934 he studied in Japan, an in 1941 became head of the Chinese painting department at the National Art Academy. He moved in 1949 to Taiwan, where he became well-known as a landscape painter and was Professor and head of the art department at National Taiwan Normal University.
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