Michael Sullivan Inscription
Professor Michael Sullivan was born in Toronto, Canada in 1916, and studied atCambridge University. He went to China and worked for the International RedCross and various museums in China from 1940 to 1946. There he met biologist WuKhoan, whom he married, and accompanied throughout her lifetime. He gained hisPh.D. from Harvard University in 1952, and taught at the universities ofMalaya, SOAS, and Stanford, and then settled in Oxford where he was an EmeritusFellow at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University. During his academic lifeof more than 70 years, he built friendships with many prominent artists inChina and studied the History of Chinese Art in depth. With his deep insightsinto the development and transformations of Chinese painting over the last tendecades, he has been considered a witness to modern and contemporary Chineseart history. He is particularly known for his monographs "The Arts ofChina”, “The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art” and “Art and Artists ofTwentieth-Century China” amongst his extensive list of publications throughwhich established himself as the pioneering scholar introducingmodern and contemporary Chinese art to the West. Professor Sullivan passed awaypeacefully in Oxford in September 2013.
Michael Sullivan Inscription
Professor Michael Sullivan was born in Toronto, Canada in 1916, and studied atCambridge University. He went to China and worked for the International RedCross and various museums in China from 1940 to 1946. There he met biologist WuKhoan, whom he married, and accompanied throughout her lifetime. He gained hisPh.D. from Harvard University in 1952, and taught at the universities ofMalaya, SOAS, and Stanford, and then settled in Oxford where he was an EmeritusFellow at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University. During his academic lifeof more than 70 years, he built friendships with many prominent artists inChina and studied the History of Chinese Art in depth. With his deep insightsinto the development and transformations of Chinese painting over the last tendecades, he has been considered a witness to modern and contemporary Chineseart history. He is particularly known for his monographs "The Arts ofChina”, “The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art” and “Art and Artists ofTwentieth-Century China” amongst his extensive list of publications throughwhich established himself as the pioneering scholar introducingmodern and contemporary Chinese art to the West. Professor Sullivan passed awaypeacefully in Oxford in September 2013.
Michael Sullivan Inscription
Professor Michael Sullivan was born in Toronto, Canada in 1916, and studied atCambridge University. He went to China and worked for the International RedCross and various museums in China from 1940 to 1946. There he met biologist WuKhoan, whom he married, and accompanied throughout her lifetime. He gained hisPh.D. from Harvard University in 1952, and taught at the universities ofMalaya, SOAS, and Stanford, and then settled in Oxford where he was an EmeritusFellow at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University. During his academic lifeof more than 70 years, he built friendships with many prominent artists inChina and studied the History of Chinese Art in depth. With his deep insightsinto the development and transformations of Chinese painting over the last tendecades, he has been considered a witness to modern and contemporary Chineseart history. He is particularly known for his monographs "The Arts ofChina”, “The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art” and “Art and Artists ofTwentieth-Century China” amongst his extensive list of publications throughwhich established himself as the pioneering scholar introducingmodern and contemporary Chinese art to the West. Professor Sullivan passed awaypeacefully in Oxford in September 2013.