Bamboos Artist: Wu Changshuo (Chinese, 1844–1927)

late 19th–early 20th century

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Hanging scroll, ink on paper

Dimensions

without mounting: 70 3/4 × 18 1/2 in. (179.7 × 47 cm)
with mounting: 94 × 23 3/4 in. (238.8 × 60.3 cm)

Credit Line

The Clyde and Helen Wu Collection of Chinese Painting, Gift of Dr. Roger Wu

Accession Number

2000.127.3

Geography

China

Culture

Chinese

Period

Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Helen T. Wu (1929–2015) and Dr. Clyde Wu (1933–2015), Grosse Pointe, Mich., by 2000; by descent to their son Dr. Roger Wu, San Francisco,Calif., by 2000; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2000
Bibliography
  • Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 138, pl. 125
  • Jason C. Kuo, ed., Heirs to a Great Tradition: Modern Chinese Paintings from the Tsien-Hsiang-Chai Collection (College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 1993), 41, no. 15
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

Nature, hanging scrolls

Subject

bamboo (plant)

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