Landscape

In June 1955 Gongchao traveled to San Francisco as a representative of China's Nationalist government to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the signing of the United Nations charter. Huang Junbi created this fan for Gongchao that summer.

The two artists had become close friends in Taiwan. Huang grew to be a dominating personality in the Taiwanese art world.

This landscape was painted in the style of court artists of the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). It depicts a thatched house at the top of verdant hills. On the reverse side (not shown), in semicursive script, Huang wrote about painting styles and techniques.

BIOGRAPHY
Huang Junbi was a native of Nanhai, Guangdong province. Like many other artists, he left the Mainland for Taiwan in 1949, as the People's Republic of China was being formed. As a professor of art, chairman of the art department, and later the head of Taiwan Normal University, he was extraordinarily influential. Despite the sterile climate of postwar Taiwan, Huang's career at his White Cloud Studio (Baiyuntang) flourished. He had the added cachet of being instructor to Madame Chiang Kai-shek.