Allee, the museum’s associate curator for Chinese painting and calligraphy ... a robed gentleman standing in the doorway of a modest lakeside studio, his servant by his side holding a scroll ...

Not far from the peasant, a scholar stands under a thatch roof in a lakeside pavilion ... the recipient of the painting,” explains Stephen D. Allee, a curator of Chinese painting and calligraphy ...

TIANJIN, CHINA - An elegant Chinese concubine stands alone in a lakeside pavilion that is flanked ... centuries into one of China's most revered art forms. Now, Nianhua are like time capsules ...

Luo Ying is a purist. The professor of traditional Chinese painting practises what she teaches: her classical ink landscape paintingsborrow techniques and styles of brushwork used as far back as t ...