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Painter | Kuo Hsueh-hu II (Overseas scenery)

  • Publish Date:2016-02-25
Painter | Kuo Hsueh-hu II (Overseas scenery)

Did You Know That … ?


  • Kuo Hsueh-hu (郭雪湖) held his first overseas exhibition in the Philippines in 1952. It was a joint exhibition in Manilla featuring 44-year-old Kuo and revered painters Li Shih-chiao (李石樵) and Yang San-lang (楊三郎).


  • He spent two months sketching Thai heritage sites in 1955, and embarked on a trip to Japan in 1956.


  • He completed a fifty-piece set on China's most-famous scenery in 1979, and began a new fifty-piece set on North America's iconic sites and landscapes in 1981 at the age of 73.


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