Rely Not on Nature Artist: Amateur Art Team from Xiyang County (Chinese, born 1950)
Publisher: Shanghai Renmin Meishu Chubanshe (Chinese, founded August, 1951)

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March 1976

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Color offset lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 30 × 21 in. (76.2 × 53.3 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Elyn and Peter MacInnis

Accession Number

2022.26.5

Geography

China

Culture

Chinese

Period

People's Republic of China (1949–present)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Acquired in China by Helen MacInnis and Donald E. MacInnis (1920–2005), Brunswick, Maine, about 1974 [see note 1]; by descent to their son Peter MacInnis, Providence, RI, about 1974; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2022

Note 1: Helen MacInnis was a secondary education instructor of Chinese studies and Donald MacInnis was Director of the China Program, National Council of Churches in New York, Midwest China Center at Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, and Coordinator for China Research of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, in Maryknoll, New York. Many of the posters in their collection were acquired during a 1974 visit to China (letter from Peter MacInnis to the Gallery, December 2021, curatorial object file)
Object copyright
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
Copyright Not Evaluated
Additional information

Object/Work type

offset lithographs

Inscriptions

不靠天 Bu kao tian (Rely not on Nature)\r\n人定胜天 Ren ding sheng tian (Humans will surely vanquish nature) on the factory wall\r\n毛主席万岁 Mao zhuxi wansui (Long live Chairman Mao) on the far factory wall in the distance\r\n农业学大寨 Nongye xue Dazhai (Learn agriculture from Dazhai) on the larger bridge\r\n胜天涧 Sheng tian jian (Vanquishing-nature stream) on the small stony bridge\r\n

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