A Wage Ticket and a Farmer’s Painting
In Liaoyuan, official accounts trace the miners’ tomb site from excavation in 1963 to public exhibition in 1964 and gallery renewal in 2015. A National Museum of China account identifies Niu Shiqing’s wage ticket among a miner’s remains; CiNii catalogs the Xi’an Mining Office’s Japanese-language history from 1942. In Dongfeng, rural artists developed farmer painting through local training, field sketches and long work on images of village life. Follow the region’s industrial records alongside a modern art practice.
A wage ticket attributed to Niu Shiqing and a 1942 mine-office history frame Liaoyuan’s coal past. Official accounts date excavation to 1963, public exhibition to 1964 and gallery renewal to 2015.
Read the National Museum of China account of Niu Shiqing’s wage ticket beside the CiNii catalog record for the Xi’an Mining Office’s Japanese-language history, published in 1942.
Dongfeng farmer painting took shape through local art training, field sketches of rural craftspeople, months of work on a painting and a county gallery opened in 2011.
Artists developed the practice through local training, sketches of craftspeople and extended work on individual paintings; the county gallery opened in 2011 to support its creation and exhibition.