White Wisteria by I Hsiung Ju

Professor I-Hsiung Ju created this wisteria model in one of his classes in September 2003. He is painting on colored, raw xuan (shuen) paper. It is very thin, unsized paper. He uses Dr Martin's bleed-proof white to create the flowers and paints dark leaves to contrast with the flowers. He is using Marie's Chinese watercolors and a large soft brush.
Master Chinese brush painter Professor I-Hsiung Ju (朱一雄 or Zhu Yixiong in Pinyin) demonstrates peonies and birds during a 2005 Princeton workshop filmed by Virginia Lloyd-Davies. Prof I-Hsiung Ju’s books on the basic subjects of “The Four Gentlemen” (“Book of Bamboo”, “Book of Orchid”, “Book of Chrysanthemum” and “Book of Plum”) are favorites with Chinese brush painting and sumi-e students throughout the world and are currently available as ebooks at Barnes and Noble bit.ly/3rBxpD0. His tutorial videos on flowers, birds, animals, landscapes, rocks and waterfalls can be purchased as DVDs at www.ihsiungju.com. You can also see more of his Chinese brush paintings at www.joyfulbrush....
Professor Ju was born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu, China in 1923. He graduated from the National University of Amoy in 1947 and received his B.A. degree in Chinese art and literature. Because of the war in China, he moved to the Philippines to teach and to continue his studies, receiving a B.F.A. in painting and an M.A. in history from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. While in the Philippines, he was a prizewinner in graphic art, oil painting, and Nanga works and held many one-man shows in Australia, Canada, China, England, Hong Kong, Japan, and the Philippines.
In 1969, he was hired as Artist-in-Residence at Washington and Lee University www.wlu.edu in Lexington, VA. and in 1970, he received tenure as Professor of Art. He was awarded the Best Art Educator of the Year in 1974 by the Chinese National Writers’ and Artists' Association in Taipei, Taiwan, and Distinguished Artist of the Year in 1978 by the National Museum of History of the Republic of China. In 1996, Prof. Ju was presented with the Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Art Award by the Philippine Chinese Association of America.
In 2002, he relocated his painting studio and home to Princeton, NJ where he continued to exhibit his works at his art gallery. He gave lectures and demonstrations to various groups in Princeton including the docents at Princeton University Art Museum, the Old Guard at Princeton University and the Women’s College Club of Princeton. In 2004 he held a one-man art show in Wuxi, China; in 2006 he took his students to Jiangyin, China, for painting workshops with local artists, and had a one-man show at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Portland, Oregon.
In 2007 Prof. Ju arranged for his students to attend Master Classes at the National Taiwan University of Arts in Taipei, Taiwan. On his 85th birthday, Prof. Ju’s “85 Retrospective Exhibit” opened at the International Art Gallery of the National Taiwan University of Arts, showing 65 years of artworks from 1942 to the present. This show included his stunning 16 brush painting panel series depicting the Yangtze River, from its source in Qinghai Province to its mouth in Shanghai, going eastward to the East China Sea.
In 2009 he published a book containing memories of his life in China, the Philippines and the United States. In September 2010, he exhibited his new 20-panel Huangshan landscape series at Jiangnan University in Wuxi, China. In January 2011, his brush paintings were on exhibit at the Lyndon Arts Center in Athens, GA. In October 2011, he exhibited his Yangtze series and his Huangshan series at the Staniar Gallery at Washington & Lee University (my.wlu.edu/sta....
I-Hsiung Ju, Emeritus Professor of Art of Washington and Lee University, passed away on March 17, 2012. A poet and philosopher, his paintings are lessons in living and appreciation of nature. Following the Chinese painting tradition, he signed his paintings with his art name Tan Feng (丹鋒).
In 2015 a retrospective of his work was exhibited at the Millennium Gate Museum in Atlanta GA, and his students Virginia Lloyd-Davies, Michael Kopald, Charlene Fuhrman-Schulz, Grace Ju, Carol Yee and Jamaliah Morais demonstrated during the opening event. I-Hsiung Ju's name is engraved on the stone of the Millennium Gate Museum in honor of his skills as a world-renowned painter, educator and pioneer in establishing artistic cooperation and understanding between the United States, China, Taiwan and the Philippines.