Woman in a garden
Chen Yunzhang (often referred to by his sobriquet Chen Shaomei) painted this melancholy woman in a garden in 1940, in the midst of World War II. Building on the traditions of late Qing paintings of women, Chen presents his subject as slender and graceful, lost in reverie as she contemplates a small stream that flows by a weeping willow. Chen was prominent in northern art circles leading up to and after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China; he eventually served as president of the Tianjin Fine Arts Academy.
Artwork Details
- 現代 陳雲彰 仕女圖 摺扇
- Title: Woman in a garden
- Artist: Chen Yunzhang (Chinese, 1907–1954)
- Period: Republic period (1912–49)
- Date: dated 1940
- Culture: China
- Medium: Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper
- Dimensions: 7 1/8 x 20 3/8 in. (18.1 x 51.8 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986
- Object Number: 1986.267.197
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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