Object Details
Artist
Harold Wong
Date
1997
Medium
Hanging scroll: ink and colors on paper
Dimensions
Primary support: 56 3/16 × 23 7/8 inches (142.7 × 60.6 cm)
Overall (including width of scroll knobs): 94 1/2 × 36 inches (240 × 91.4 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired through the George and Mary Rockwell Fund
Object
Number
99.049
Harold Wong (Huang Zhongfang) showed extraordinary talent as a young artist and exhibited his painti(…)
Harold Wong (Huang Zhongfang) showed extraordinary talent as a young artist and exhibited his paintings in Hong Kong beginning in the early 1960s. He then embarked on a successful career as an art dealer in traditional and modern Chinese painting. His life-long training in traditional painting techniques and the experience of studying first-hand the works of China’s great masters has served him well since 1990, when he returned full-time to painting. He continues to live and work in Hong Kong.In a 1997 interview, when asked what concerns him most when painting landscape, the artist replied:”Mainly to capture a sense of that luminosity emanating from the whole landscape. In my paintings this results in all the individual elements ‘swirling’ together in a luminous mass that still has breathing spaces within it.”
