"This is a guy who’s asking the question, 'Who am I, and what am I supposed to do with my life?'"
Curator Joseph Scheier-Dolberg on "Returning Home" by Shitao (Zhu Ruoji).
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“This is a guy who’s asking the question, ‘Who am I, and what am I supposed to do with my life?’”
Joseph Scheier-Dolberg
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Joseph Scheier-Dolberg
Assistant Curator, Department of Asian Art
Assistant Curator, Department of Asian Art
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Shitao (Zhu Ruoji)
ca. 1695