Catching Up on Lessons

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補課

1949–76

Li Hua 李樺

(Chinese, 1907–1994)

Culture

China

Medium

Woodcut print; ink on paper

Measurements

12.6 x 16.4 cm (4 15/16 x 6 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Thomas and Patricia Ebrey 2025.581

This artwork is known to be under copyright.

Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

This type of Mao-era print illustrates and documents the continuation of China’s woodcut printing tradition, a medium invented in China.

Description

Under Chairman Mao, printmakers were encouraged to continue to make prints in support of the country’s modernization efforts. Themes included women joining the workforce as soldiers, farmers, and steel workers to help construct the new socialist state, as well as joining men in the fields. New motifs such as tractors, trains, electrical equipment, and smoking chimneys were introduced into landscape scenery to illustrate a prospering China.