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Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Published 2000. Paperback, 183 pp.; 30 cm; text in Japanese, with some texts also in Chinese and list of works in Japanese and English; illustrated with color plates and black-and-white photographs.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Glossy illustrated paper covers, plum blossom painting with red title panel to front, small dark seal device on plain red rear; light bumping to edges, mild shelf wear, mild sunning to top edge of front cover and spine, fine surface scratches to rear cover. Binding tight. Red endpapers. Handwritten nine-line English biographical note in ink in lower half of p. 5. Pages otherwise unmarked. Catalogue of the exhibition held November 1 - December 10, 2000, the first showing of Fang Zhaoling (Lydia Fong) in Japan in nearly five decades. Lists 117 items: paintings and calligraphy from 1958 through the 1990s, a bronze bust, and her seals, brushes, ink sticks and inkstones. Captions in Japanese give date and dimensions, with transcriptions of inscriptions and seals. Subjects range from Huangshan and the Yangtze to Stonehenge and Hong Kong's boat people; Ode to World Peace (1984), a scroll over ten meters long, is reproduced across pp. 38-41. Includes messages from museum founder Daisaku Ikeda and Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, a tribute by her daughter, Chief Secretary Anson Chan, an essay by Fang on her life and art, a conversation between her second son and museum director Mitsunari Noguchi, and a chronology with family photographs. Born in Wuxi in 1914 and widowed in 1950 with eight children, Fang studied with Zhao Shao'ang and Zhang Daqian and at the University of Hong Kong and Oxford. She gave 42 paintings to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in 2005 and died in 2006.