Meeting the Grandchildren, 1967
Kuo Ping-chun (Taiwanese, 1900-1970); Taiwan
Ink on paper; 36…

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Meeting the Grandchildren

ClassificationsPaintings-scrolls

Artist Kuo Ping-chun (Taiwanese, 1900 - 1970)

Date1967

Made AtTaiwan, Asia

MediumInk on paper

DimensionsApproximately: 27 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (69.9 × 34.3 cm)
Framed: 45 3/8 × 19 5/8 × 1 in. (115.3 × 49.8 × 2.5 cm)

Credit LineGift of Aloysius F. Kuo

Object number2020.13.4

DescriptionThis is a scroll painting titled Meeting the Grandchildren by Kuo Ping-chun in 1967 for his first time meeting his grandchildren. The artist was born in 1900 in modern-day Chiayi graduated from Taiwan Medical School in 1923, practiced medicine in a suburb of Chiayi. Late in the 1920s he took lessons from Master Lin Yu-shan. The figure in white likely represents Kuo Ping-chun, while the two children are probably Aloysius Kuo’s children, Jeffrey and Fidelius.

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