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Examples of his own paintings are the last authentic examples of "literati art" from China. Several expatriates practiced the style after the Chinese Communist Revolution, but he was the last to die of those who practiced it, and the style was not permitted immediately after the revolution.
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His collection of ancient Chinese paintings is consistently listed as one of the greatest such collections in the world. In 1998, 25 paintings from his collection were given to the
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Subsequent generations had no one to pass the style onto, and so it died out with the few expatriates practicing abroad, like Wang.
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Notes made by James Cahill on forgeries/copies of works in various private (including C. C. Wang's) and museum collections:
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This article is about the Chinese artist and collector. For the Taiwanese photographer, see
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with his wife and two youngest daughters, leaving his son and oldest daughter behind.
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Along the Riverbank: Chinese Painting from the C.C. Wang Family Collection
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On C. C. Wang's purchase of the Contag collection, see Cahill's note at:
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A detailed biography of C. C. Wang can be found at:
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Chih-Chien Wang (artist)
Chinese
pinyin
Wade–Giles
Suzhou
China
Shanghai
Chinese Communist Revolution
United States
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dong Yuan
James Cahill
Along the Riverbank: Chinese Painting from the C.C. Wang Family Collection
ISBN
0870999052
http://jamescahill.info/the-writings-of-james-cahill/responses-a-reminiscences/154-32what-became-of-the-contag-collection
http://jamescahill.info/File/LS_lecture_notes/Addendum%20B.pdf
http://www.echinaart.com/Advisor/adv_ccwang_gallery.htm


July 9, 2003
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