Landscape Painted in Honor of Sun Yatsen's Birthday

當代年牧仲珊日曰同慶國父百年畫灐
紙本痓綎

INSCRIPTION (UPPER LEFT):
Together the sun and the moon light up the universe; together the river and the mountain forever celebrate spring. Respectfully painted by Zhao Zhongshan, commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the country's father [Sun Yatsen],
in November of the fifty-fourth year of the Republic of China.

A lone scholar on his way to visit colleagues in a distant hut is seen crossing a bridge over a mountain stream in this richly inked landscape. Tinges of red indicate that this is an autumn scene. The sources for the mountain forms and brush techniques can be traced back several centuries.