Paintings and Calligraphy by Chao-Ling Fang

With an Introduction on Chinese Painting by the Artist Exhibition Catalogued and Installed by Staff at the Museum of Art: Wallace S. Baldinger, Director; James F. Colley, Curator; Jean M. Woods, Cataloguer ...Madame Fang is a native of Wu-hsi in Kiangsu, a province rich in artistic history. Her first exhibition was held when she was 14 years old. Since that time her work has been shown in London, Paris, Lausanne, Oxford, Leeds, Manchester, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Penang, Montreal, Boston, and New York. She has given demonstrations of painting and calligraphy at the Universities of Oxford, Leeds, Hong Kong, Cambridge, Munich, Marburg, and Boston. Chao-Ling Fang is the mother of eight children, the eldest of whom is now a student at the University of Oregon. Although her home is in Hong Kong, the artist is currently engaged in post-graduate research at the Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. Madame Fang is a calligrapher as well as a painter of landscapes, birds, and flowers. She offers in this combination of arts a phenomenon rare in the Occident but common in Chinese history, because in the Middle Kingdom painting and calligraphy are so closely related as to be considered sister arts. As Han Su-yin, well-known writer, has remarked, Chao-Ling Fang is a kind of person "only too rare in this world - a complete artist."

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Museum of Art, University of Oregon

Baldinger, Wallace S.

FANG Zhaoling 方召麐