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Photo 1. Liao Jingwen, mid-1940s.
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Photo 2. Xu Beihong (left), my brother Xu Qingping, and myself in our house at 16 East Shoulu Street, Beijing, 1949. Paper strips on the windows helped prevent the panes […]
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Photo 3. Xu Beihong (right) with his wife Liao Jingwen and their son Xu Qingping and daughter Xu Fangfang in the house at 16 East Shoulu Street, Beijing, 1953.
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Photo 4. Liao Jingwen and Xu Fangfang in their small storage-room home at 16 East Shoulu Street, Beijing, 1954. A portrait photo of Xu Beihong is in the background.
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Photo 5. Xu Fangfang, Xu Qingping, and Shenpo (Grandaunt) at the moon gate, with the east yard in the background, at 16 East Shoulu Street, Beijing, 1955.
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Photo 6. Xu Beihong’s living room at 16 East Shoulu Street, Beijing, 1954. On the wall is a couplet by Lu Xun rendered in Xu Beihong’s calligraphy. It reads: “Fierce-browed, […]
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Photo 7. Xu Fangfang wearing a Young Pioneer’s red scarf, Beijing, 1957.
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Photo 8. The east yard at 16 East Shoulu Street, Beijing, with its entrance to Xu Beihong’s former residence, late 1950s.
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Photo 9. Exhibition gallery in the new courtyard of the Xu Beihong Memorial Museum seen through the new moon gate at 16 East Shoulu Street, Beijing, late 1950s.
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Photo 10. Xu Fangfang (third from left), her piano teacher, and classmates in the front yard of the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, 1960.
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Photo 11. Xu Fangfang in 1960. An additional framed print of this portrait was broken by Red Guards during their raid on the family’s house in August 1966.
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Photo 12. Xu Fangfang (front row, far right), classmates, and CCOM teachers at the Two Seven Locomotive Factory in Changxindian where they worked in April 1966.
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Photo 13. Xu Fangfang (fourth from left) and classmates standing in the Yongding River at Lugouqiao (Marco Polo Bridge), April 1966, supporting each other in the swift current, feeling they […]
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Photo 14. Xu Fangfang playing the piano score of the model work, the piano-accompanied cantata The Red Lantern, in the house at Haibo Hutong, Beijing, 1968.
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Photo 15. Xu Qingping and Xu Fangfang at Tiananmen Square, 1968. The slogans in the background read: “Carry the Proletarian Cultural Revolution to the end. Wish Vice Chairman Lin Biao […]
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Photo 16. Xu Fangfang playing the violin in front of a mud hut on the 4701 Army Farm, Gegu, 1971. There was no piano on the farm.
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Photo 17. Xu Fangfang (front row, far right) and schoolmates on the 4701 Army Farm, Gegu, 1971.
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Photo 18. Xu Fangfang (right) and schoolmates riding a sleigh on Guanjiang (Pouring River) Lake on the 4701 Army Farm, Gegu, 1971.
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Photo 19. Art students and their parents from California visiting the Xu Beihong: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting exhibition in the Denver Art Museum, Denver, January 2012. Xu Fangfang is directly […]
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Photo 20. Xu Fangfang in St. Louis.
Frontispiece
Frontispiece. Portrait of Xu Fangfang, drawn by her father Xu Beihong (1895-1953), 1950, 35 x 25 cm, pencil on paper, collection of the artist’s family
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Figure 1. Xu Beihong Memorial Museum diagram (1954 and1958)
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Figure 2. Xu Beihong (1895-1953), Galloping Horse, 1941, 130 x 76 cm, ink and color on paper, Xu Beihong Memorial Museum
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Figure 3. Xu Beihong (1895-1953), The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains, 1940, 143.5 x 424 cm, ink and color on paper, Xu Beihong Memorial Museum
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Figure 4. Xu Beihong (1895-1953), Jiufang Gao, Horse Judge, 1931, 139 x 351 cm, ink and color on paper, Xu Beihong Memorial Museum
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Figure 5. Xu Beihong (1895-1953), Sound of the Flute, 1926, 79.5 x 38 cm, oil on canvas, Xu Beihong Memorial Museum
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Figure 6. Xu Beihong (1895-1953), Portrait of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1940, 20 x 23.8 cm, charcoal on paper, Xu Beihong Memorial Museum. Xu Beihong sketched Gandhi in a few minutes during […]
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Figure 7. Xu Beihong (1895-1953), Spring Rain on the Lijiang (Li River), 1937, 73.8 x 113.8 cm, ink on paper, Xu Beihong Memorial Museum
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Figure 8. Xu Beihong (1895-1953), Wounded Lion, 1938, 110 x 109 cm, ink and color on paper, Xu Beihong Memorial Museum
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Figure 9. Li Hu (1919-1975), Night Navigation through the Three Gorges, 1971, 125 x 175 cm, ink and color on paper, collection of Li Hu’s family.
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Figure 10. Li Hu (1919-1975), Guan Hanqing, 1962, 85 x 60 cm, ink and color on paper, collection of Li Hu’s family
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Back cover. Xu Beihong (1895-1953), Six Galloping Horses, 1942, 95.5 x 180 cm, ink and color on paper, Xu Beihong Memorial Museum