現代 謝稚柳 丹霞山水圖 冊頁|Landscape Sketches of Mt. Danxia, Guangdong

Xie Zhiliu

Datable to 1963 · Two drawings from a set of five adhered sheets; pencil on paper · Asian Art

In 1963 Xie held a painting exhibition in Guangdong. While there, he visited Mount Danxia, a scenic site celebrated for the reddish surface of its cliffs. He made quite a few pencil sketches of the scenery on coarse paper of varying sizes, and he identified the motifs he used by writing single words and simple phrases onto the sketches. Despite their brevity, the captions vividly capture the extraordinary variety of the natural landscape.

Artist

Xie Zhiliu

Date

Datable to 1963

Medium

Two drawings from a set of five adhered sheets; pencil on paper

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Sarah Shay, 2005