"A White Horse is Not a Horse, A Painted Deer is Not a Deer" Yale University Art Gallery

20th century

Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: without mounting: 42 1/2 × 40 15/16 in. (108 × 104 cm)
with mounting: 92 1/2 × 41 7/8 in. (235 × 106.3 cm)
with rollers: 46 1/2 in. (118.1 cm)
Credit Line: The Clyde and Helen Wu Collection of Chinese Painting, Gift of Bernadine and Dr. David Wu
Accession Number: 2002.142.9
Geography: China
Culture: Chinese
Period: People's Republic of China (1949–present)
Classification: Paintings
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Provenance

Helen T. Wu (1929–2015) and Dr. Clyde Wu (1933–2015), Grosse Pointe, Mich., by 2002; by descent to their son Dr. David Wu, and Bernadine Wu, Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., by 2002; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2002

Bibliography

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), 83, no. 98

Object copyright

Not Assigned

Additional information

Object/Work type

animal art, hanging scrolls

Subject

deers

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