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Zhang Wo
Late Yuan figure painter from Huainan, settled in Hangzhou, who worked in Li Gonglin's plain-line manner and left several versions of the Nine Songs scroll
A desk holds an unrolled sheet bearing three bold black ink strokes, with a rack of many brushes above it, a stone ink slab and ink stick, a porcelain bowl, a red lacquer box, a dish of red seal paste and a paperweight; a small seated figure shows through a round window onto bamboo.
Also known as Zi Shuhou · Hao Zhenqisheng · Hao Jianghaike
Zhang Wo, courtesy name Shuhou, came from Huainan and later lived in Hangzhou. According to the Tuhui baojian he was well read in the classics but kept failing the examinations, so he turned to poetry and painting, drawing figures in the plain ink-line manner of the Northern Song master Li Gonglin. Several versions of his Nine Songs scroll survive, in the Jilin Provincial Museum, the Shanghai Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Cleveland scroll is dated 1361, with the poems written out by Chu Huan.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; active in the Zhizheng era (1341–1368)