Huang Junbi
Mountains Amidst Clouds
1953
Scroll
Huang Junbi
Mountains Amidst Clouds
1953
Physical Qualities
Ink and color on paper, Image: 44 1/2 × 18 3/4 in. (113 × 47.6 cm.)
Framed: 51 × 22 in. (129.5 × 55.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Kai-Yun Chiu, Baltimore, in Honor of her Parents, Chung-Wei Chiu and Shu-Tsing Chiu
Object Number
2009.161
Huang Junbi started painting at age sixteen. He studied Western painting in the southern city of Guangzhou in 1922, and in Japan in 1934. After the Japanese invaded Beijing in 1937, Huang moved to Sichuan. In 1941, he became head of the Chinese painting department at the National Academy of Art Chongqing then moved to Taiwan after 1949 where he became head of the art department of National Taiwan Normal University.
Huang Junbi was known for his atmospheric cloud painting which dominates the present work.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2009; Kai-Yun Chiu, Baltimore, by descent; Chung-Wei Chiu and Shu-tsing Chiu, Taiwan; probably from the artist
Frances Klapthor, "BMA Past/Future: Guyton/Chiu; Two Collections of Chinese Art," BMA, August 18, 2010-April 12, 2011
Inscribed: Signed and dated, "Spring 1953 painted in Taiwan Huang Junbi"
