CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art showcases works of
art by Fu Baoshi, a preeminent figure in twentieth-century
Chinese art, in an exhibition opening this fall. Chinese Art in
an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) is the first
retrospective in the Western Hemisphere of the artist who
revolutionized the tradition of Chinese ink painting. The
exhibition reveals the process of the artists self-discovery and
personal struggle, as well as the complexity of art and politics
in Republican and Communist China. Featuring 90 works on loan
from the Nanjing Museum, one of the oldest and most
comprehensive museums in China, this is the first collaboration
between the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Nanjing Museum. The
exhibition will be on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art from
October 16, 2011 through January 8, 2012 and is the first time
this work will be viewed outside China. It will then travel to
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from January 30
through April 29, 2012. Given the strength of