Cao Quantang 曹全堂

Bumper Harvest of Wheat at the Mountainous Region

Maker

Cao Quantang 曹全堂 (b. 1957 in Shaanxi, China)

Title

Bumper Harvest of Wheat at the Mountainous Region

Year

1978

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

tempera

Supports

Geography

Origin: China

Dimensions

53.7 x 61.3 cm (21 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription verso, bottom right in ink and pencil: [Chinese characters]/[Chinese characters]

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Barnet Fain

Object Number

82.281.2

Type

Exhibition History

Being and Believing in the Natural World
Perspectives from the Ancient Mediterranean, Asia, and Indigenous North America
Oct 22, 2022 – Jun 04, 2023

Label copy

This painting’s brilliant colors evoke a particularly happy harvest scene. Cao Quantang’s work comes out of the Chinese tradition of peasant painters— amateurs first trained in the 1950s to create propagandistic art for the Chinese government. Cao and others sought to capture the beauty of the countryside in highly political works promoting the government’s message of peaceful prosperity.

—WC

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Tombstone

Cao Quantang 曹全堂 (b. 1957 in Shaanxi, China)
Bumper Harvest of Wheat at the Mountainous Region, 1978
Tempera on paper
53.7 x 61.3 cm (21 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Barnet Fain 82.281.2

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