1993.206: Early Spring

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1993.206

People

Liu Kuo Sung (Liu Guosong) 劉國松, Chinese (born 1932 )

Title

Early Spring

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting, wall scroll

Date

Republican period, dated 1966

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/200856

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Horizontal wall scroll mounted on a panel; ink and colors on cotton paper, with signature of the artist reading "Liu Guosong"; with artist's square red intaglio seal reading "Liu Guo Song"

Dimensions

painting proper: H. 66 x W. 93 cm (26 x 36 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: Liu Guosong

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art

Copyright

© 1966 Liu Kuo-sung

Accession Year

1993

Object Number

1993.206

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Robert D. Mowry, The New Chinese Landscape: Recent Acquisitions, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., 2006), pp. 3, 5, 12, fig. 1

Exhibition History

• A Decade of Collecting: Asian Acquisitions 1990-1999, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 03/11/2000 - 11/05/2000
• Tradition and Synthesis: 19th- and 20th-Century Works from East Asia, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/22/2001 - 06/09/2002
• Forging the New: East Asian Painting in the Twentieth Century, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/03/2005 - 10/16/2005
• The New Chinese Landscape: Recent Acquisitions, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/12/2006 - 11/12/2006

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