Birds on a willow branch
Details
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Title
Birds on a willow branch
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Artist/maker
Zhang Shuqi (1901 - 1957) -
Associated place
China (place of creation) -
Date
1939 - 1940 -
Material and technique
ink and colour on paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
mount 205.8 x 31.6 cm (height x width)
painting 134 x 22.6 cm (height x width)
along roller 41.4 cm (length) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1964.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1964.208
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Catalogue text
Zhang Shuqi was from Pujiang in Zhejiang province. He studied painting under Liu Haisu in Shanghai and later taught at the National Central University, moving with them to Sichuan in 1937. He went to the United States from 1942, returning to China in 1946, but later settled in America. He is particularly known for bird and flower painting.
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. 163 on p. 188, illus. p. 188 fig. 163
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