Highlights of the Annual Report - The Ashmolean Museum
Highlights of the Annual Report - The Ashmolean Museum
Highlights of the Annual Report - The Ashmolean Museum
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42 / <strong>The</strong> <strong>Ashmolean</strong> 2002-03<br />
Lychees and cicada<br />
Chen Shuren (1883-1948).<br />
China, 1928. Ink and colour on paper, 86 x 38.5 cm<br />
Presented in honour <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 70th birthday <strong>of</strong> Angelita Trinidad Reyes (EA 2002.72)<br />
Lychees are associated with summer and were a particularly favoured painting<br />
subject in south China. Chen Shuren was born in Panyu, Guangzhou, and<br />
was one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> leading painters <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Lingnan School, so called after an<br />
ancient name for <strong>the</strong> area around Guangzhou (Canton). In <strong>the</strong> late 19th<br />
century a distinctive painting style developed in <strong>the</strong> region, associated with<br />
modernity and <strong>the</strong> reception <strong>of</strong> certain aspects <strong>of</strong> Western painting. One <strong>of</strong><br />
its founders, Ju Lian, was <strong>the</strong> teacher <strong>of</strong> Chen Shuren. Chen studied in<br />
Japan, worked for some time in Canada and held various posts in <strong>the</strong><br />
Nationalist government.
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