Artist: Shao Fang 邵芳 (1918 - 2009)
Four Seasons Waterside Landscape Quadruplets Scroll Paintings
Ink on paper, Yisebiao mount, Vertical axis hanging scroll
Painting (Sight): (EACH) Length: 92 cm, Width: 34 cm
Dated: In the Ninth month of Autumn of Ren Wu year (1942)
Signed/Seal(s): Signed, with Numerous Artist seals

PROVENANCE:

Nien Cheng 念鄭 or Zheng Nian 鄭念 (January 28, 1915 - November 2, 2009) was the pen name of Yao Nien-Yuan (姚念媛). She was a Chinese author known for recounting her experiences during the Cultural Revolution in her memoir Life and Death in Shanghai.

ARTIST BIO: Shao Fang 邵芳 (1918 - 2009) is a famous Chinese-American painter, ceramicist and architect. Originally from Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, he now lives in the United States. She was a disciple of the master of traditional Chinese painting Chen Shaomei and the first female painter to copy murals in Dunhuang. She was also a student of the famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). The great-nephew and granddaughter-in-law of Sheng Xuanhuai, a famous industrialist of a generation. On May 18, 2002, 84-year-old Sheng Shaofang was awarded an honorary doctorate in humanities and arts by West Virginia University.

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