Study Lei Feng's Fine Example, Part II Artist: He Youzhi (Chinese, 1922–2016)
Publisher: Shanghai Renmin Chubanshe (Chinese, founded March, 1951)

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August 1973

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

2022.26.12

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)
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Object/Work type

offset lithographs

Inscriptions

学习雷锋好榜样 (Study Lei Feng's fine example)\r\n(三)对待个人主义要象秋风扫落叶一样 Duì dài gè rén zhǔ yì yào xiàng qiū fēng sǎo luò yè yī yàng (3. Bring to individualism the leaf-scattering wind of autumn)\r\n(四)对待敌人要象严冬一样残酷无情 Duì dài dí rén yào xiàng yán dōng yī yàng cán kù wú qíng (4.Treat enemies with the heartless cruelty of severe winter)

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