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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection Object numberS1955-0095-001-0 TitleExulting in the Snow 叫雪 CreatorChang Tung (Zhang Dong) [+] [-] Birth: Death: Bibliography: DescriptionChan Tan Nung (Zhang Dannong) was a native of Meixi in the Guangdong province of China. An accomplished painter, calligrapher and seal carver, he spent his early years among the art circles of Suzhou and Shanghai. Around 1940, Chan journeyed to Singapore and taught calligraphy for many years, and with his prolific oeuvre local subjects and themes, and Balinese life, became one of the leading proponents of the Nanyang style. This earlier painting, however, a study of Gao Qifeng’s ‘Playing in the Snow’ 《寒猿戲雪》 (1916), shows the influence of China’s modernisation on the Chinese overseas, and how that influence reached the literati based in Singapore. Production placeSingapore Production date 1952 Object categoryChinese Painting, Painting MaterialInk and Colour on Paper, Ink, Paper Dimensions Height: 137.5 cm Width: 67.5 cm Height: 230.5 cm Width: 91 cm Credit lineGift of Malcolm MacDonald

CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection

Object numberS1955-0095-001-0

TitleExulting in the Snow 叫雪

CreatorChang Tung (Zhang Dong)

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DescriptionChan Tan Nung (Zhang Dannong) was a native of Meixi in the Guangdong province of China. An accomplished painter, calligrapher and seal carver, he spent his early years among the art circles of Suzhou and Shanghai. Around 1940, Chan journeyed to Singapore and taught calligraphy for many years, and with his prolific oeuvre local subjects and themes, and Balinese life, became one of the leading proponents of the Nanyang style. This earlier painting, however, a study of Gao Qifeng’s ‘Playing in the Snow’ 《寒猿戲雪》 (1916), shows the influence of China’s modernisation on the Chinese overseas, and how that influence reached the literati based in Singapore.

Production placeSingapore

Production date 1952

Object categoryChinese Painting, Painting

MaterialInk and Colour on Paper, Ink, Paper

Dimensions

Height: 137.5 cm
Width: 67.5 cm
Height: 230.5 cm
Width: 91 cm

Credit lineGift of Malcolm MacDonald