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Meiguo xin shi kan chu ban she, 2000. Wraps, 36 pp. plus 2 plates on inside rear cover and rear cover; 26 x 26 cm; text in Chinese; illustrated with color plates and a group photograph of the six artists. Catalogue design and color separation by Hu Chuanni; printed by Shenzhen Meiguang Color Printing. Signed in ink by Hua Zhining (as "Ruby H. Wang") on her artist's page (p. 9).
In Good condition. Glossy laminated pictorial wraps with calligraphic title and montage of the artists' work on front cover, Zhou Ling's Flower Seller on rear cover; light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, light soiling, toning to front cover. Clear laminate on rear cover bubbled and creased. Staple bound, binding tight. Dampstain to upper margins of inside front and rear covers; otherwise unmarked. Catalogue of the North American Chinese Artists Association's six-person exhibition, showing the work of six Chicago-based painters who came to the United States from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Preface by association president Chen Haishao, dated Chicago, spring 2000, presents the show as an exchange among the three Chinese regions and between China and the United States. Each artist has a page with calligraphic signature, seal and short biography, followed by four or five color plates. Hua Zhining (Ruby H. Wang), born in Wuxi, studied under Huang Junbi and at National Taiwan Normal University and had lived in the United States more than thirty years. Chen Haishao, a student of Lingnan School master Zhao Shao'ang, taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Jiang Qigu, born in Shanghai, took his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990 and joined its faculty. Ying Xiaole, a Manchu artist from Beijing trained in woodblock printing, and Zhou Ling (pen name Da Ling) of Tianjin were both students of Huang Yongyu. Also includes Wang Wenfu's figure paintings, among them The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. Contents: Preface (Chen Haishao); Chen Haishao; Hua Zhining; Jiang Qigu; Wang Wenfu; Ying Xiaole; Zhou Ling