Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
10-3/4 x 90-5/16 in. (image) 10-3/4 x 155-3/4 in. (installed)
Period
Dynasty
Accession Number
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lilly
Copyright
Collection
Asian Art (Chinese and other Asian)
Color Palette
Provenance
[Fritz Low-Beer]; Eli Lilly (for $1,200. from February 1949 list by W. Peat); given to the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1960.
Gallery Labels
Ma Shouzhen was one of China’s finest women artists, but unlike most noted female painters in Chinese history, she was an independent woman, unrelated to any other painter. Ma’s works were famous in her own time. In fact, a record states that her artistic fame had spread so far that envoys from Thailand knew to buy and collect her fans.
The date on this magnificent work was also the last year of her life.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Indianapolis Museum of Art
November 23, 1983 - January 22, 1984
Chinese Drawings: Transportation and Exhibition
Indiana University Art Museum
February 8, 1968 - April 12, 1968
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