Zhang Daqian, perhaps one of the finest painters of his generation, is also notorious as a successful forger. He learned to paint from his mother then studied textile weaving and dyeing in Japan from 1917 to 1919. Upon his return to China, Zhang traveled to Shanghai where he studied painting, particularly the works of 17th-century Chinese painter Shitao, and became so adept that as early as 1922 he may have forged a Shitao album. Zhang and his family were among those who moved to the southwest Sichuan province once Japan occupied Beijing. After 1949, he lived in Argentina, Brazil, and the United States before returning in 1977 to Taiwan. This mountain landscape is dedicated to Chung-Wei Chiu.