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About this work

This hanging scroll shows a Chinese scholar in a garden, holding a scroll and surrounded by rocks and bamboo. Bright reds, greens, and blues pop against the ink outlines. It’s a woodblock print—carved blocks were inked and pressed one color at a time. The artist signed it with two names, which was common in early 20th-century China when artists experimented with both tradition and new ideas. To see more prints like this, look up the subject china.