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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1942 | Ayutthaya, Thailand | The Old City of Ayutthaya (大城遺跡)
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1959 | Mount Yake, Japan | Autumn Mountain and Rivers (秋山溪聲)
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1962 | Nagano Prefecture, Japan | Snow-capped Mountains on a Sunny Winter Day (雪嶺冬晴)
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1983 | California, U.S. | Sunny San Francisco (舊金山三之一：晴日)
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1983 | California, U.S. | Fog-shrouded San Francisco (舊金山三題之二：烟霧)
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1986 | Henan Province, China | Longmen Grottoes (龍門石窟)
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1991 | Yunishikawa, Japan | Spring Snow on a Mountain Village (山村春雪)
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1991 | Pennsylvania, U.S. | Pittsburg in Autumn (丘村豔秋)
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1994 | Agra, India | Moon-lit Taj Mahal (月光照聖陵)
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1997 | Venice, Italy | Sun over the City of Water (豔陽照水都)
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2001| Arizona, U.S. | The Grand Canyon (大峽谷風雲)
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1997 | Anhui Province, China | Mount Huangshan (黃山奇峰)
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