Chao shao an prints from slides

Feb 4, 2020 - Jun 20, 2020 | Snite Museum of Art

^{Chao Shao-an (Chinese, 1905-1998) Pomegranate: Seeds of an Open Pomegranate, Ink and pigment on paper, Courtesy of the Artist’s family}

Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery
February 4, 2020 – June 20, 2020

Chao Shao-an (Chinese, 1905-1998) lived a momentous life vividly expressed through brush and ink over a nearly eighty-year career.

This intimate exhibition of seventeen works are drawn from the collection of his family and feature detailed yet poetic images of the natural world for which the artist developed an international reputation. These album leaf paintings highlight Chao Shao-an’s remarkable ability to capture the essence of subtle moments in nature through vibrant brushwork and coloration.

The artist came of age in the southern Chinese following the collapse of China’s last imperial dynasty and began his first apprenticeship in ink painting under the Lingnan School of painting–f