The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes

January 24 – March 31, 2002

This exhibition explored the work of contemporary Chinese artist Mu Xin (born 1927), revealing his distinctive personal and artistic responses to tumultuous changes within twentieth-century China. This exhibition featured a suite of thirty-three landscape paintings (1977–1978) created through a unique synthesis of Western and traditional Chinese paintings styles, and sixty-six pages of Mu Xin's Prison Notes, written while in solitary confinement from 1970 to 1973.

Curator: Jointly organized and circulated by the Smart Museum of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery and co-curated by Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Chinese Art History at the University of Chicago, and Alexandra Munroe, Director of the Japan Society Gallery, New York. The Smart Museum presentation was coordinated by Stephanie Smith, Smart Museum Assistant Curator.

The exhibition was made possible by a grant from the Rosenkrantz Foundation. Additional support for the Smart Museum's presentation was provided by Richard and Gail M. Elden.

Catalogue out of print

Presented in the Richard and Mary L. Gray Special Exhibition Gallery.

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