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Despite such accolades, Huang’s official career met with hardship. Because of his friendship with members of a conservative political faction, he was twice exiled to remote regions, where he died in 1105.</SPAN></SPAN></P>\r\n<P>The <I>Scroll for Zhang Datong</I> was written as a colophon for a nephew who visited Huang during his exile in Sichuan province. The colophon originally followed Huang’s transcription of an essay by the Tang dynasty (618–907) scholar-official Han Yu (768–824). The two parts of the scroll were separated at an early date and the essay portion lost. The scroll is one of five remaining examples of Huang’s large-sized running-script calligraphy, and represents the apex of his career as a calligrapher. In this style, Huang’s brush moves with deliberate poise and tension to produce elongated strokes using centered-tip and suspended-arm techniques. The poet-statesman-calligrapher Su Shi described the effect as resembling \"snakes dangling from treetops.\" Many sources served as models for Huang’s calligraphy. He was most deeply influenced by the style of Yan Zhenqing (709–785), his friend Su Shi, and the <I>Yihe ming</I>, a set of monumental cliff carvings dated 514, which Huang believed were written by Wang Xizhi (303–361). </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":" –ca. 1928 Fu Tienian 符鐵年 (China). <br /> –  Xu Junqing 徐俊卿 (China).<br /> –ca. 1946 Zhou Xiangyun 周湘雲 family (China), sold to Zhang Daqian 張大千.<br />ca. 1946–ca. 1969  Zhang Daqian, sold to John B. Elliott (Princeton, NJ).<br />ca. 1969–1992 John B. Elliott (Princeton, NJ), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1992.","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"A poet, essayist, art critic, and calligrapher, Huang is considered one of the Four Great Masters of Song calligraphy. In his official career, however, Huang  met with hardship because of his friendships with  members of an out-of-favor political faction, and he was twice exiled to remote regions. <i>Scroll for  Zhang Datong </i>is an inscription written for a nephew  who had visited Huang during his years of banishment in Sichuan province. The text originally followed  Huang’s transcription of an essay by the scholar– official Han Yu (768–824). The two parts of the scroll  were separated at an early date, and the essay section is no longer extant. This scroll is one of five  remaining examples of Huang’s large-sized running- script calligraphy and represents the apex of his career as a calligrapher. Huang’s brushwork reveals the deliberate poise and tremulous tension that produced the elongated strokes of the characters.\n","remarks":"ASIA2_14_CLA  Day 1 Cataloguing"}],"datebegin":1100,"sortnumber":"1992   22y","published_date":"2026-02-11 10:36:55.149890","objectid":33737,"dimensions":"Calligraphy: 34.1 x 552.9 cm. (13 7/16 x 217 11/16 in.)\r\nColophons: 34.8 x 303.3 cm. (13 11/16 x 119 7/16 in.)\r\nMount: h. 36.4 cm. (14 5/16 in.)","on_view":true}