On View
Not on viewObject number2011.75
Beauty Against Willows
Artist
Xie Zhiliu
(Chinese, 1910 - 1997)
Date1946
Mediumink and color on paper
Dimensionsimage: 51 1/2 × 21 1/2 in. (130.8 × 54.6 cm)
mount: 59 1/2 × 27 3/8 in. (151.1 × 69.5 cm)
mount: 59 1/2 × 27 3/8 in. (151.1 × 69.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Albert and Betty Chang, retirees of Upjohn Company and Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Exhibition History"The Chinese Scholar's Brush: Works from the Albert and Betty Chang Collection," KIA Joy Light Gallery of Asian Art (May 7 - Aug. 27, 2011).
"Lasting Legacy: A Collection for Kalamazoo," Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan (Sep. 6, 2014 - Jan. 4, 2015).Label TextFrom the Shanghai area, Xie Zhiliu was a noted painter of the traditional style, excelling in the genres of landscape, bird-and-flower, and figure painting.
In 1942, Xie Zhiliu studied and cataloged the Buddhist cave paintings in remote Dunhuang, near China’s Mongolian border. The use of bright colors on this female figure, painted four years after his Dunhuang visit, reflects the lessons Xie learned from those 1,000- to 1,500-year-old cave paintings in the Gobi Desert.
