Chen Hongshou Bird on Branch Silk Painting Postcard For Sale

This postcard features a printed detail of the 17th-century ink and color on silk painting \"Bird on Branch\" by Chen Hongshou. It depicts a plump, stylized bird perched on a fruiting branch above an ornamental rock. This postcard is a modern museum reproduction print of the original historical artwork.Chen Hongshou (1598-1652) was a highly celebrated Chinese painter, calligrapher, and poet of the late Ming dynasty. Known for his unique and somewhat eccentric style, he mastered figure painting, landscapes, and bird-and-flower subjects. Living through the tumultuous transition from the Ming to the Qing dynasty, he briefly served as a court painter before becoming a Buddhist monk to avoid the advancing Manchu troops.The work is currently housed at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). The piece was gifted to the museum by James Cahill (1926-2014), a world-renowned scholar of Chinese art and long-time UC Berkeley professor who built an extraordinary collection of Asian art.This souvenir postcard was published by the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) in Ann Arbor, Michigan. UMMA is one of the largest and oldest university art museums in the United States, with its collection origins dating back to 1856. - Publisher: The University of Michigan Museum of ArtShipping and Handling:
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