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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2013.160
People
Fong Chung-Ray (Feng zhongrui) 馮鍾睿, Chinese (Nanyang, Henan province born 1933)
Title
1973-12
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting, hanging scroll
Date
1973
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/319257

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Circular painting mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, with artist’s dated signature
Dimensions
painting proper: 52 cm (20 1/2 in.)
full mounting: 85 x 61.9 cm (33 7/16 x 24 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Lower right, black ink: Feng Zhongrui (Chinese brush-written characters)
  • inscription: brush-written in lower right of painting: Signed: "Feng Zhongrui No. 12 of 1973"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Feng Zhongrui, Taiwan (1973), probably gift; to Chu-tsing Li, Lawrence, Kansas (1973-2012), gift; to his son B U.K. Li, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2012-2013), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2013.

Footnotes:
1. Dr. Chu-tsing Li (1920-2014)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Chu-tsing Li Collection, Gift of B U.K. Li in honor of Chu-tsing Li and in memory of Yao-wen Kwang Li and Teri Ho Li
Accession Year
2013
Object Number
2013.160
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Reds and pinks are juxtaposed with black ink and varied hues of brown. The resulting fiery contrast adds drama to the striking forms. Although there is a gestural power in these shapes, they are constructed deliberately, just as the layering of colors is calculated. While welcoming accident and spontaneity, the artist carefully controlled his process.
Feng Zhongrui, who had moved from China to Taiwan in 1949, was active in the modernist movement led by members of the Fifth Moon Group. Together with Liu Guosong, he explored concepts of abstraction and nonobjective painting, taking inspiration in part from the American abstract expressionists and enlisting Chinese media in novel ways.

Publication History

  • Robert D. Mowry and Claudia Brown, A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950-2000, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge, Mass., 2007), cat. 21

Exhibition History

  • A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950-2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/03/2007 - 01/27/2008; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 06/28/2008 - 09/14/2008; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, 10/11/2008 - 01/04/2009; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, 02/11/2009 - 05/24/2009

Verification Level

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