Landscape
Date1977
Maker
Zong Qixiang
Chinese, 1917 - 1999
Label TextDedicated to the erudite translator Yang Xianyi (b. 1915), this landscape is representative of “New Landscape Painting,” which was created from the late 1950s to the 1970s and featured an economically prosperous China and symbols of the Cultural Revolution. In this work, steam-engine boats filled with industrial goods sail across a river beneath a monumental cliff. In earlier eras, such landscapes would have included solitary boats and contemplative scholars fishing by themselves. This painting instead retains the social-realist flavor of the period.
Object number2007.97
ProvenanceYang Xianyi楊憲益 (1915–2009) and Gladys Yang (1919–1999)
Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water, Mar. 18 - May 30, 2022.Credit LineGift of John B. Vincent in memory of Irene Vongehir Vincent
DimensionsOverall: 78 9/16 x 30 11/16 in. (199.5 x 77.9 cm)
Image: 53 7/16 x 26 15/16 in. (135.7 x 68.4 cm)
MediumInk and color on paper
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