Wisteria
On display
Details
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Title
Wisteria
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Artist/maker
Wu Changshuo (1844 - 1927) -
Associated place
China (place of creation) -
Date
Spring 1915 -
Material and technique
ink and colour on paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
32 x 38.3 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, to mark the opening of the exhibition 'Modern Chinese Paintings from the Reyes Collection', Ashmolean Museum, 1996.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 11 | Chinese Paintings -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1996.79
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Catalogue text
Wu Junqing, better known as Wu Changshuo, spent his early life in Anji in Zhejiang province. In his late twenties he went to Suzhou and became acquainted with ancient ritual bronze vessels, calligraphy and painting in private collections. He became a poet and calligrapher with a renowned interest in early scripts and epigraphy and only later did he consider himself a painter; he was founding chairman of the Xiling Seal-carving Society. He was an associate of the leading Shanghai School painters of the late nineteenth century, in particular Ren Yi (q.v.), and is regarded as the artist who passed on their styles to the next generation of painters. He achieved great fame and was particularly highly thought of in Japan.
In: Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000)
Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 138 on p. 162, illus. p. 163 fig. 138
