Peking-Peihai Park in winter / Ku Yuan. – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Peking-Peihai Park in winter / Ku Yuan. comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Peking-Peihai Park in winter / Ku Yuan.
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Peihai Park, the former imperial garden in Peking (now Beijing), appears here in winter, with bare trees and skaters gliding across the frozen lake. The print was issued in 1956 by the Foreign Language Press in Peking, which produced illustrated material for readers abroad after the People's Republic was founded in 1949. Ku Yuan worked in the color woodcut tradition that grew out of the New Woodcut Movement of the 1930s, and winter recreation like this was a common subject of the period, showing ordinary city life as part of a new national culture.
| Created / published | Peking : Foreign Language Press, 1956. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color. |
| Genre | Woodcuts Chinese Color 1950-1960. |
| Subjects | Trees--China--1950-1960. Winter--China--1950-1960. Skating--China--1950-1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,456 × 1,151 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217390 |
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