American Woman's Club was privileged to view the wonderful. collection of paintings of Madame Wu Hsing-fen at her home on Avenue Joffre on Saturday afternoon, January 22. Madame Wu is over 60 years old and her entire life has been spent in painting, so that now she has a large collection of her work besides some very fine old paintings that have been gathered for generations, some of which date back as far as the Sung dynasty. She is the daughter of Wu Tze-chia, who was considered the best life painter of his day, but his work has been surpassed by that of his daughter. In 1880, she painted a long scroll of 100 flowers which is now famous and which has inspired many poems of appreciation Madame Wu loved scenery and has lived for a great part of her life in the mountains, where she has done some of her best work. In 1910, some of her paintings were sent to be exhibited at Rome and were bought by the Queen of Italy. It will also be remembered that Madame Wu presented a large number of her paintings to the American Woman's Club about two years ago to sell for War Relief work and that, at auction, they realized $1,300.
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