After Qian Songyan (1899-1985) Chinese, (2) Silk Scrolls with Print Inserts. Both works are prime examples of the artist's works in several colors, with kanji throughout and titles written along the bottom of the back of the scrolls: "Long March" and "Banana Boats/Plants Below Karst Above." 

Size Closed: 2 1/4 x 2 x 24 1/2 in. 

Size Open: 67 1/2 in. long 

Qian Songyan was a prominent 20th Century Chinese painter and a leading figure of the “New Nanjing Art Style” who served as the President of the Jiangsu Academy of Chinese Painting. A child prodigy born into a family of scholars in 1899, he blended traditional techniques with scenes of daily village life, eventually becoming a respected professor of painting and language arts. His career was tragically interrupted by the Cultural Revolution, during which he was labeled a capitalist, endured property confiscation, and was forced into grueling manual labor that resulted in chronic illness. Despite these hardships, he secretly continued to paint and experienced a major artistic resurgence in the 1970s, gaining national fame for his large-format landscapes like “Voyage of Thousands Sailing Boats.” Before his death from stomach cancer in 1985, he was recognized as a significant cultural leader and was elected as a representative to the National People’s Congress for many years.

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