The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 13, 2025
Set of Fan Paintings Mounted as Album Leaves
1960s
Location: Not on view
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Despite the small pictorial surface of the fan format, each of these fan paintings has an extraordinary vision that is deep and broad.Description
This set of fan paintings expresses the artist’s personal life and differs from the state-commissioned works Fu painted to fulfill his social duty. Here, several of the paintings have dedicatory inscriptions to Fu’s wife, Luo Shihui, and his eldest daughter, Yishan. Not only do these inscriptions offer glimpses into the artist’s private life, they also reveal acutely felt emotions, especially the struggle of a loving father deeply troubled by a daughter’s illness.- 1960s–?Fu Baoshi's family collection, Nanjing, China?–2008(Han Mo Xuan Co., Ltd., Hong Kong, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)2008–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Chung, Anita, Julia Frances Andrews, Kuiyi Shen, Tamaki Maeda, and Aida Yuen Wong. Chinese art in an age of revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965). Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 61, pp. 184-196Chung, Anita. "Re-emergence: New Chinese Galleries and Art Acquisitions of The Cleveland Museum of Art." Orientations vol 44 no. 8 (November/December 2013): 64-75. Reproduced: p. 71, fig. 7
- Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904–1965). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 16, 2011-January 8, 2012); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (co-organizer) (January 30-April 29, 2012).
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