#lingnan school

[sinetheta]

Rock and Insects. Ju Lian (居廉). Ink and color on silk, circular fan leaves, mounted. 1896.

Part of the Lingnan School of Chinese painters in the late Qing Dynasty, Ju Lian (1828-1904) was a painter native to Panyu (番禺), now a district of Guangzhou. He would later come to mentor the brothers Gao Jianfu and Gao Qifeng, two artists who popularized the theme of incorporating modern, eclectic elements of Western painting into their traditional subjects — a theme that would later become a signature of the Lingnan School.

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Chao Shao-an Kingfisher Practice

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[orientallyyours]

Dong Kingman (1911-2000) was born in California to Chinese parents, and as a child returned with them to China where he received art training from traditional Chinese brush painters, including those from the Lingnan School. In 1929, he moved back to San Francisco and started producing watercolour paintings depicting cityscape subjects.

Image 1: Poster, “American Airlines: San Francisco,” circa 1970

Image 2: "Chinatown, San Francisco." Watercolour on paper, 15½" x 22". Signed lower right circa mid-1950s

Sources: The Michael Brown Collection, RoGallery