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Chang Chien-Ying 张蒨英 pinyin Zhang Qianying
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1913
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Chang Chien-Ying 张蒨英 ( 1913 - 2004 ) was born on May 25 in Wuxi, Jiangsu
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Province China.
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Her father was a customs official.
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1931/1935
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After high school in Wuxi, she studied Art, at Nanjing Central University,
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where she met her husband Fei Cheng-Wu ( 1914-2001 ) student of Xu Beihong.
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1947/ 1950
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Thanks to a scholarship, they went to study in Great Britain, at The Slade School
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of Fine Art, in London.
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The couple settled permanently in London.
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Numerous exhibitions at The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolors, The Royal Academy ,
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the Society of Women Artists as well as in galleries in London.
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She is famous : |
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- for her delicate birds and landscapes paintings,
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- for her illustrations of books of poems,
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- for the design of film costumes :
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( The Inn of the Sixth Happiness 1958 - The World of Suzy Wong 1960 )
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- for her contribution to the musical ( The World of Suzy Wong 1960 ),
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- for her creations of silk patterns with swallows for the Maison Dior.
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2004
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She died in January, at the age of 90.
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According to the will of the two spouses, their ashes were scattered in Hampstead,
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United Kingdom, in front of the magnolias of Kenwood House.
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Danièle Sicard
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Chang Chien-Ying 张蒨英 - "Birds on Magnolia" ink and colour on paper
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1943 年国立中央大学艺术系部分成员在青城山
(左起) 徐悲鸿、费成武、陈晓南、张倩英(费成武夫人)、孙宗慰
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