Learn from Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers, and Progress Every Day Artist: Painting Class of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers in Changzhou (Chinese)
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: 21 × 30 in. (53.3 × 76.2 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Elyn and Peter MacInnis

Accession Number

2022.26.38

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

Marks

First published in December 1972; Fifth print in August 1973

Inscriptions

好好学习 天天向上Study hard, make progress every day\r\n红小兵 Little Red Guard\r\n毛主席语录: 学生也是这样,以学为主,兼学别样,即不但学文,也要学工·学农,学军,也要批判资产阶级。Mao’s quotation book: The students should also study things beyond the academic. They should learn about the workers, the peasants and soldiers and learn to criticize the capitalists.\r\n为革命勤奋学习; 批判读书无用论 Study hard for the Revolution. Against the point that “studying is useless.”\r\n

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