id:			162747
accession number:	2003.286
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.286
updated:		2023-08-23 23:59:46.481000

Frozen Landscape, 1985–90. Hung Hsien (Chinese, b. 1933). Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper; overall: 107.3 x 62.2 cm (42 1/4 x 24 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Ju-hsi Chou 2003.286

title:				Frozen Landscape
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creation date:			1985–90
creation date earliest:		1985
creation date latest:		1990
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creditline:			Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Ju-hsi Chou
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culture:	America
technique:	hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Hung Hsien (Chinese, b. 1933)  - artist
Hung Hsien, also known as Margaret Chang, was born in Yangzhou, China, in 1933 in a very artistic and prominent family. She settled in Taiwan with her family in 1948. She studied traditional Chinese painting with Prince Pu Xinyu and in the Normal University of Taiwan. She became a member of the Fifth Moon Group. After she married T.C. Chang in 1957, the couple moved to Chicago, where Hung Hsien studied painting in both Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago. These experiences inspired her to combine traditional Asian brushwork and Western abstract art. Hung Hsien’s paintings have been exhibited and collected in several museums in Hong Kong and the US.
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measurements: Overall: 107.3 x 62.2 cm (42 1/4 x 24 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Dr. and Mrs. Ju-hsi Chou, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-2003
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2003-
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fun fact:
Hung Hsien is a member of the Fifth Moon Group, artists who pioneered the modern art movement in postwar Taiwan.

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Yangzhou-born Hung Hsien studied classical Chinese painting as a teenager in Taipei with Pu Xinyu [Pu Ru] (1896-1963), cousin of the last emperor of the Qing dynasty. When she moved to the Chicago area in 1958, she began exploring the connections between traditional Asian brushwork and Western abstract art. <br><br>In this painting, she used the traditional Chinese hanging scroll format and calligraphic brushstrokes to create an abstract landscape of rocky, icy forms.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Li, Chu-tsing. <em>Rocks, Trees, Clouds, and Water: The Art of Hung Hsien</em>. Lawrence, KS: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1978.
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	<em>Hong Hsien, interview by Taylor Ginter and Xingyi Li</em>. <em>May 12, 2017</em>. Houston Asian American Archives oral history interviews, MS 573, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.
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	url:		https://hdl.handle.net/1911/97746

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