Land Rent House I and IV Artist: Shanghai Primary and Middle School Textbook Team (Chinese, 1967–1990)
Publisher: Shanghai Renmin Chubanshe (Chinese, founded March, 1951)

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November 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

2022.26.85

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
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Object/Work type

offset lithographs

Inscriptions

收租院(一): 踏进收租院,如进鬼门关。交租的农民,含着悲痛和仇恨,背着粮食,拉着小车,来到收租院里。地主的狗腿子在旁边监视着他们。\r\n收租院(四): “地主阶级对于农民的残酷的经济剥削和政治压迫,迫使农民多次地举行起义,以反抗地主阶级的统治。”刘文彩对农民的残酷的剥削和压迫,激起了农民的强烈反抗和斗争。\r\n

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