Artist: Lu Yanshao (1909-1993)

Date: Modern

Dimensions: Height 145.7 cm, Width 48.9 cm

Material: Ink and color on paper

Gift of Lu Yanshao

• Object Type：
  • PAINTINGS
• Location：
  • The Painting and Calligraphy of Shanghai Gallery
• Tag：
  • su shi's poem hanging scroll lu yanshao modern ink and color paper

Lu Yanshao (1909-1993), also known by his zi (designated name) Wanruo, was a native of Jiading in Shanghai. He studied under Feng Chaoran and excelled in landscape painting, tracing from the "Four Wangs" to the Song and Yuan traditions. He served as a painter at the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy and a professor at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art). This is one of his early works, adopting the grand composition of the Northern School while incorporating the restrained brushwork style of the Southern School, achieving a harmony of these two schools. It depicts the layered cliffs and clouds of the Three Gorges, laying the foundation for his later styles of "Lu's clouds and waters" and "surging water at the Three Gorge". His inscription features horizontally broad and vertically slender strokes, incorporating elements of clerical script and stele calligraphy, showing an archaic and unadorned quality.