Ling Shu-hua – A Chinese Painter’s Choice, Arts Council, 1967

Posted: January 14th, 2025 | No Comments »

Came across this catalogue for Ling Shu-hua’s exhibition of her collection of Qing era paintings in 1967 – it was held at the Arts Council Gallery at #4 St James’s Square (which is now The In & Out Naval and Military Club). Incidentally, some of the works were gifted to her, as she mentions in the introduction to the exhibition below, at ‘her father’s house’ in 1923 (that house being on Shih-Chia/Shijia Hutong – now the hutong museum and just along from where Wallis Simpson would stay at #4 in 1925 – small worlds.

Anyway, attached as it may be interesting – the catalogue cover etc, along with Ling Shu-hua’s introduction to her collection and a short commentary by Quentin Bell (showing the Bloomsbury connections remained strong!)…

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