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Long Drum Dance
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1972
- Artist/maker
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Cheng Shifa (1921 - 2007) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 175.5 x 53.5 cm (height x width)
painting 60 x 39.5 cm (height x width)
along roller 63 cm (length)
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- Technique index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.126
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Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 10 on p. 32, illus. p. 33 fig. 10
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
Cheng Shifa was born in Songjiang county in the vicinity of Shanghai. He studied traditional Chinese painting at Shanghai Art Academy in the late 1930s, and subsequently earned a living through book illustration and New Year pictures. He concentrated on figure painting, in which he was influenced by Ren Yi, and after visiting southwest China in the late 1950s he specialised in paintings of China's national minorities. In 1956 he joined the Shanghai Academy of Chinese Painting, of which he later became a director. During the 1970s his attention turned to bird and flower painting.
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