Waterfall landscape with figures

Title

Waterfall landscape with figures
Artist/maker

Xiao Sun (1883 - 1944)
Associated place

China (place of creation)
Date

1883 - 1944
Material and technique

ink on paper
Material index

paper
Technique index

painted;

brush drawing
Object type

hanging scroll;

painting
Dimensions

200 x 60 cm approx. (height x width)
painting 104.2 x 49.2 cm (height x width)
along roller 69 cm (length)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Purchased, 1962.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1962.228

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Catalogue text

Xiao Sun was from Huaining in Anhui province, where he first learnt to paint with Jiang Yun (1847-1919). He travelled throughout China and eventually settled in Peking, where he held a succession of teaching posts, and was an active member of Chen Hengke's Society for the Study of Chinese Painting in the 1920s. He was one of the major early twentieth century promoters of the early Qing individualist painter Dao Ji, who was also from Anhui.

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