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Xiao Sun

undated · Framed album leaf; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

Xiao Sun was a cofounder of the Chinese Painting Research Society (Zhongguo huaxue yanjiuhui 中國畫學研究會) in Beijing in 1920, along with prominent painter-theorists Jin Cheng and Chen Hengke. He advocated the study of late Ming/early Qing painters Shitao (1642–1707), Gong Xian (1619–1689), and Mei Qing (1623–1697). This painting of a white-robed scholar by a stream in a pine grove reveals Xiao’s interest in Shitao, especially in the color palette and the combination of wavy lines with bold dots to texture rock surfaces.

Artist

Xiao Sun

Date

undated

Medium

Framed album leaf; ink and color on paper

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Bequest of Robert H. Ellsworth, 2014