Poems in Cursive Script Calligraphy

WEN ZHENGMING (1470-1559) Poems in Cursive Script Calligraphy Handscroll, ink on paper 30 x 912 cm. (11 3/4 x 359 in.) Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist Dated tenth month, renshen year (1512) Colophons by Wang Zhideng (1535-1612), Yu Youren (1879-1964), Wu Baoyu and Xu Shiying (1873-1964), with a total of five seals Ten collector’s seals and one half seal NOTE: The Shi Zhixue mentioned in Yu Youren’s (1879-1964) colophon on this scroll refers to Shi Fengxiang (1893-1966). Shi was a native of Huashichong in Xiaogan City, Xiaochang prefecture, Hubei province. He was an industrialist in the weaving industry, whose second daughter Shi Jingyi married Chiang Wei-kuo (1916-1997), the adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek. It was through Chiang Wei-kuo’s introduction that Yu Youren was invited to write a colophon for this scroll in 1963.