Qingxia Wu - Artist Info

About Qingxia Wu

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Wu Xing Xia
  • Biography from China Guardian Auctions Beijing

    Wu Qingxia, also known as Wu Deshu, was a female Chinese artist born in Changzhou, Jiangsu. She was the daughter of Mr. Wu Zhongxi, a collector and connoisseur of Jiangnan. In 1934, she co-founded the Chinese Women's Painting and Calligraphy Association with Li Qiujun, Zhou Lianxia, and Lu Xiaoman.

    Wu was employed as a painter at the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy in 1956 and her work "A Thousand Purples and Thousands of Reds" was selected into Japan's "World Famous Paintings".

    She was a member of the China Artists Association, director of Shanghai Branch of Artists Association, director of China International Cultural Exchange Center, member of Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, academician of Italian European Academy, member of Hangzhou Xiling Yinshe, and librarian of Shanghai Museum of Culture and History.

    Wu's main works include "A Thousand Purples and Thousands of Reds", "Soaring Rivers and Seas into the Sky", and "Soaring Thousands of Miles".

    She published "Wu Qingxia Painting Collection".

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