The current Winter issue of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin is devoted to the exhibition in January of selected Chinese paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection, dating from 1860 to 1980. Mr. Ellsworth's Collection consists of nearly 500 paintings by some 190 artists.
The Collection of paintings was published in a 3-volume catalogue, Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: 1860-1950. The exhibition presents a history of Chinese art from the art of painting in silk to modern colorful painting.
By Wu Changshi Maxwell K. Hearn, curator of Asian Art, the issue author, provides a brief history of the art of Chinese painting from tradition, innovation within tradition, painting with Western influence, new traditionalist, to painting after liberation. He also reviews works by Zhao Zhiqian, Wu Changshi, Wang Zhen, Xu Beihong, Liu Haisu, Qi Baishi, Fu Baoshi, Zhang Daqian, Li Keran, and Wu Guanzhong, painters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
By Qi Baishi