A Tradition Redefined:
Chinese Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950-2000
October 11, 2008 – January 4, 2009

This special exhibition of 63 works is drawn exclusively from the renowned collection of Chu-tsing Li Ph.D., professor emeritus of the University of Kansas. It is the finest and most comprehensive collection of its kind outside Asia. This exhibition is the first to survey Chinese paintings produced during the second half of the 20th century.  

Organized by the Phoenix Art Museum and Harvard University Art Museums.

Funding for the exhibition and catalogue comes from the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne, Blakemore Foundation, David Woods Kemper Memorial Foundation, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Joel and Lisa Alvord, Winnie and Michael Feng, Dorothy Tapper Goldman, the family of Earle Jen-Shyong Ho, James M. Kemper, Jr., Martha Sutherland and Barnaby Conrad III, and Gilbert and Stephanie Zuellig. Production of the catalogue was further supported by Marilyn J. Stokstad and Jacqueline B. and Alan L. Stuart. All works but two are loans from the Chu-tsing Li Collection. We thank B and Teri Li for the loan of Wang Jiqian’s Landscape of 1990 (catalogue number 4) and Lu Yanshao’s Springs and Rocks on Mount Yandang of 1979 (catalogue number 41).

Local sponsorship of this exhibition is made possible in part through the generosity of John and Heidi Niblack, the Gioconda and Joseph King Endowment for Exhibitions, the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.