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Evening Clouds and Spring Trees

  • loan

  • Description

    Born into a poor family, Liu Zhengcheng never attended university, and was apprenticed into a textile works in Shanghai. Returning to work in textiles in Chengdu, he taught himself to be a calligrapher, became assistant editor of a Sichuan cultural journal, then member, later secretary, of the Chinese Calligraphers Association. In 1994 he was appointed Professor in the College of Calligraphy at Peking University. He has since founded the International Calligraphers Association, and has published sixty of a series of 108 volumes of historic examples of Chinese calligraphy.

    The title to essay is written in kaishu (regular script) and is about the life and work of Michael Sullivan and his relationship with his wife Khoan Sullivan.

    Based on extract from Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009)

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China › Hebei province › Beijing (place of creation)
    Date
    2006
    Artist/maker
    Liu Zhengcheng (born 1946) (calligrapher)
    Associated people
    Khoan Sullivan (1919 - 2003) (subject)
    Michael Sullivan (1916 - 2013) (subject)
    Material and technique
    ink on gold-flecked paper
    Dimensions
    33 x 680 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper,
    processed material › metal › gold
    Technique index
    drawn (image) › line drawing › brush drawing
    Object type index
    communications equipment › art/writing equipment › scroll › handscroll,
    visual representation › calligraphy,
    visual representation › scroll › handscroll
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
    Accession no.
    LI1486.22

  • Further reading

    Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 71 on p. 274, illus. p. 274 fig. 71

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    • currently in research collection

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