1999.78: Moonland ('Yueqing baishi')

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1999.78

People

Hung Hsien (Margaret Chang, Hong Xian) 洪嫻, Chinese (Yangzhou, China born 1933)

Title

Moonland ('Yueqing baishi')

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Yüeh-ching pai-shih

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting, hanging scroll

Date

1970

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/192052

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink and colors on paper; with signature of the artist reading Hung Hsien; and with red, square, intaglio seal of the artist reading Hung Hsien

Dimensions

77.4 x 71.3 cm (30 1/2 x 28 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: artist's seal and signature: Hong Xian [Hung Hsien]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Professor and Mrs. Chu-tsing Li, Lawrence, KS, USA, Purchased from the artist, Gift to the HUAM.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Yao-wen and Chu-tsing Li in honor of John M. Rosenfield, Robert D. Mowry and Shiu-ying Hu

Accession Year

1999

Object Number

1999.78

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• 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

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