The Other Half of the Sky: Twentieth-Century Chinese Women Painters
This installation of complements Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism: From the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Zhou Lianxia (1909 – 2000), Lu Xiaoman (1903 – 1965) and Wu Qingxia (1910 – 2008) are known as the three greatest women painters of the Republican Period (1912 – 1949) in China. The featured work in this installation is Butterflies and Corn Poppies by Zhou Lianxia, who was born just two years after Kahlo.
Chen Peiqiu (陳佩秋) (陳佩秋 Chinese, 1922 – 2020), Bird on a Crabapple Tree, 1985
Ren Xia (任霞) (Chinese, 1876 – 1920), Bird Among Wisteria and Dogwood, circa 1905
Zhou Lianxia (周鍊霞, Chinese, 1909 – 2000), Butterflies and Corn Poppies, 1955, People’s Republic of China (1949 –present)