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Meticulously Painting Our Rivers and Mountains

Fu Baoshi Chinese
datable to the early 1960s
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.
Depicted here is Mount Hua, China’s great Sacred Mountain of the West. Paradoxically, the idea of taking a study tour to understand contemporary life had made Fu more aware of China’s pictorial tradition. Fu related his encounter with this mountain to the art of Wang Lu (1332–after 1383), who created a famous album depicting views of Mount Hua. The challenge to the modern artist, Fu remarked, was how to simultaneously realize tradition and express the present day.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Meticulously Painting Our Rivers and Mountains
  • Artist: Fu Baoshi (Chinese, 1904–1965)
  • Date: datable to the early 1960s
  • Culture: China
  • Medium: Horizontal scroll; ink and color on paper
  • Dimensions: Image: 48 11/16 x 59 1/4 in. (123.6 x 150.5 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Lent by Nanjing Museum
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art