Landscape with a boat

Title

Landscape with a boat
Artist/maker

Huang Binhong (1864 - 1955)
Associated place

China (place of creation)
Date

1934
Material and technique

ink and colour on paper
Material index

paper
Technique index

painted;

brush drawing
Object type

album;

painting;

hanging scroll
Dimensions

mount 128 x 46.7 cm approx. (height x width)
painting 21.8 x 38.2 cm (height x width)
along roller 46.3 cm (length)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Purchased, 1966.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1966.192

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Catalogue text

Huang Binhong was one of the foremost literati painters and art historians of the early twentieth century. Born in She Xian, Anhui province, he was brought up in Zhejiang province and worked for some years in Peking before settling in Shanghai in 1909. In 1937 he returned to Peking. The art associations he was instrumental in establishing include the Society of Chinese Antiquities, Calligraphy and Painting (Zhongguo jinshi shuhua yiguan xuehui, 1926) and the Bees Painting Society (Mifeng huashe, 1927). His painting style, which is largely characterised by the use of dense, overlapping layers of ink, has been said to comprise one of the last major innovations in literati landscape painting. He wrote extensively on the history of Chinese painting, was a renowned connoisseur of both paintings and art objects, and edited many publications. His best-known published work is the Meishu congshu (1911) in 120 volumes, a collection of historical and modern writings on art which he compiled with Deng Qiumei. He lectured at several art colleges throughout his career and after 1949 held numerous prestigious academic and administrative positions.

In: Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000)

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