Harvard Art Museums > 2014.524: 1973-9 Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"1973-9 (Fong Chung-Ray (Feng zhongrui) 馮鍾睿) , 2014.524,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 30, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/319256. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2014.524 People Fong Chung-Ray (Feng zhongrui) 馮鍾睿, Chinese (Nanyang, Henan province born 1933) Title 1973-9 Classification Paintings Work Type painting, hanging scroll Date 1973 Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/319256 Physical Descriptions Medium Circular painting mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, with artist's dated signature Dimensions painting proper: 52 cm (20 1/2 in.) full mounting: 89 x 62.5 cm (35 1/16 x 24 5/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: Upper right, black ink: Feng Zhongrui (Chinese brush-written characters) inscription: title, date, and signature brush-written in black ink at upper right: "Feng Zhongrui qi san zhi jiu" (Feng Zhongrui, No. 9 of 1973) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Feng Zhongrui, Taiwan (1973), probably gift; to Chu-tsing Li, Lawrence, Kansas (1973?-2012), gift; to his son B U.K. Li, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2012-2014), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2014. Footnotes: 1. Dr. Chu-tsing Li (1920-2014) Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Chu-tsing Li Collection, Gift of B U.K. Li in memory of Chu-tsing Li, Yao-wen Kwang Li, and Teri Ho Li Accession Year 2014 Object Number 2014.524 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description What appears to be one dramatic gesture is really the result of a complex series of applications of splashed color and brushed ink. The circular format, always a challenge to compose, finds antecedents in the round painted fans of traditional China; the format here provides the perfect “non-window” for the artist’s nonrepresentational painting. Feng Zhongrui joined the Fifth Moon Group—an association of Taiwan artists concerned with the modernization of Chinese art—in 1961. Five years later his works were exhibited in the U.S. His spontaneous applications of layers of color and ink attracted great interest in this country, and in 1975 Feng relocated to the San Francisco area. Publication History Robert D. Mowry and Claudia Brown, A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950-2000, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge, Mass., 2007), cat. 20 Exhibition History A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950-2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/03/2007 - 01/27/2008; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 06/28/2008 - 09/14/2008; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, 10/11/2008 - 01/04/2009; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, 02/11/2009 - 05/24/2009 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
