Chao shao an prints charming

'In 1992, Professor Chao Shao-an made a gift to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco of eighty works from his personal collection - works that he had withheld from sale throughout his career.

This catalogue illustrates in full-colour all eighty paintings, a gift which constitutes in size and quality the finest group of his work to enter a public collection. The paintings include album studies, flowers and birds, multiple sheets compositions of water buffalo, great bursts of azaleas, landscapes, and a portrait, The works are arranged here chronologically within subject category, and represent a personal assessment of his achievements in visual effects, pictorial concepts and scale.

For the Asian Art Museum, they constitute a documentary record of the artist's convictions about Chinese painting of the modern age and the Lingnan school.

The two essays included here provide a context for better understanding the paintings of Ch