Ma Wan
Illustration — Ma Wan, Poetic Twilight Clouds, Shanghai Museum, 1349 Ma Wan was a Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368). His specific dates of birth and death are not known. Ma was born in Jiangning (江宁; present-day Nanjing) and later lived in Songjiang.
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Ma Wan
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- Ming dynasty · Yuan dynasty
- Occupation
- painter · poet · calligrapher
- Fields
- shan shui
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Illustration — Ma Wan, Poetic Twilight Clouds, Shanghai Museum, 1349 Ma Wan was a Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368). His specific dates of birth and death are not known. Ma was born in Jiangning (江宁; present-day Nanjing) and later lived in Songjiang.
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Born at Nanjing, died in 1378.
The field of work recorded is shan shui. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Dong Yuan, Juran and Mi Fu are recorded as an influence. Work by Ma Wan is recorded in the collections of The Palace Museum and Shanghai Museum.
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- Dictionnaire Bénézit. Dictionnaire des peintres,sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. éditions Gründ. 9. 13440. 1999. 2700030192.
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