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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2022.374
People
Yu-Wen Wu 吳育雯 (born 1958, Taipei, Taiwan)
Title
Walking to Taipei
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
handscroll, painting
Date
2010-2021
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Culture
Taiwanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/379123

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink on white and brown paper, mounted on Dura-lar, with acrylic rollers
Dimensions
50.8 × 762 cm (20 × 300 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Inscription: hand-written in pencil along the end papers at beginning of scroll: Walking to Taipei: A Journey of Longing, Y Wu, 2010–2021 Seal: artist's seal: Square red intaglio seal on end papers at beginning of scroll: Wu Yu-Wen Inscription: hand-written in pencil at end of scroll: Walking to Taipei, 2010–2021, Wu 2021
  • inscription: hand-written in pencil along the end papers at beginning of scroll:
    Walking to Taipei: A Journey of Longing, Y Wu, 2010–2021
  • seal: of artist, square, intaglio, on end papers at beginning of scroll:
    黃育雯 [Huang Yu-Wen]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Yu-Wen Wu, Boston (2010-21), sold; through [Praise Shadows Gallery, Brookline, MA, (2021 - 2022), sold; to Harvard Art Museums.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Robert Kwak and Eunhak Bae, through a fund established by Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane for the purchase of Asian art, and the Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Copyright
© Yu-Wen Wu
Accession Year
2022
Object Number
2022.374
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
About two thousand strips of white and brown paper with printed directions cover a 25-foot-long, 20-inch-tall handscroll on translucent white Dura-lar with clear acrylic roller ends. Read from right to left, they are arranged in patterns that vary from one section to the next. Floral end papers decorate the ends of the scroll, which is stored in a custom-made box.

Publication History

  • Yu-Wen Wu 吳育雯, Suna Cha, and Sarah Laursen, Under the Same Moon (West Haven, CT, 2024), pp. 41-49, figs. 1-5

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/04/2023 - 06/03/2024

Verification Level

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