The Yellow Mountains (Huang Shan) of Anhui Province
October 14, 2024 - January 20, 2025
Free
Zhong-Hua Lu is a recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. This grant funded the creation of a 1000-foot scroll based on the artist’s trip to the Yellow Mountains (Huang Shan) of Anhui Province in China.
You can read more about the artist here: https://nyfolklore.org/artist-spotlight-zhong-hua-lu/
The Yellow Mountains are an extraordinary landscape for this art form because of the huge variation in form and weather conditions. Sometimes, one mountain can appear to encompass all four seasons at once. There are 72 peaks with steep cliffs, rivers of mist, waterfalls, and pines with long reaching boughs that survive harsh blizzards and cling through blizzards to the rocky mountainsides. There is a long tradition of Chinese painters traveling to the Yellow Mountains to paint this astounding landscape from the Tang Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, and into the present.
The exhibit can be viewed whenever the New York Folklore Shop and Gallery are open. New York Folklore is located at 129 Jay Street, Schenectady, on the Jay Street Marketplace pedestrian mall. The Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10AM to 3:30PM, and Sundays 10AM to 2PM (April- December). Please call 518-346-7008, email NYF at info@nyfolklore.org, or visit our web site, www.nyfolklore.org for additional information.
Parking in downtown Schenectady is free on Sunday, and there is ample parking both in convenient LAZ lots, and on the street.
Funding is provided for this exhibit by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and Schenectady County Initiative Program.