Lot Essay
This painting was on loan to the Birmingham Museum of Art from 1983 to 1996.
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LOTS 23-31PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTIONThis collection was assembled by a surgeon in Birmingham, Alabama who spent time in Korea as an officer in the United States Navy. He was a member of the Birmingham Asian Art Society, which formed in 1979 to support the museum’s acquisitions and educational programs. Members of this group also collected paintings under the advice of the eminent scholars and curators Sherman Lee and Lucy Lim.
QIAN SONGYAN (1898-1985)
Yellow Mountains
Details
QIAN SONGYAN (1898-1985)
Yellow Mountains
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
22 x 34 ¼ in. (56 x 87 cm.)
Inscribed and signed, with four seals of the artist
Yellow Mountains
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
22 x 34 ¼ in. (56 x 87 cm.)
Inscribed and signed, with four seals of the artist
Provenance
Acquired in 1984.