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Zhang Shuxu (1899-1956) was a native of Pujiang, Zhejiang. His original name was Shi Zhong, in character lines, nicknamed Seven Furnace Residents, and his room name was Komatsu Sanso. He is a well-known chinese and foreign flower and bird painter, the cousin of Zhang Shijian, a librarian of the Central Research Museum of Literature and History, and an enlightener of calligraphy and painting. He was a professor at Nanjing Central University, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he went to the United States to establish a painting academy, lectured on painting, and later settled in San Francisco.

He is diligent in sketching, working in color, especially good at using powder, on dyed antique rice paper, dipped in white powder and dot dyeing, counting white as black, skillful techniques, extremely vivid, painting style is rich and elegant, unique. In 1941, Zhang Shuxu's flower and bird paintings were of their own, and in 1941, the huge Chinese painting "Hundred Pigeons" was sent to the United States as a national gift to congratulate Roosevelt on the inauguration ceremony of the three presidents, which was a pioneering move for Chinese paintings to enter the White House, and Zhang Shuxu's reputation was greatly enhanced.

Zhang Shuxu once raised eagles, peacocks, sparrows, parrots and other birds in huge iron cages in his Xiaozhuang apartment in Nanjing, and planted many flowers and trees for the day and night to see and copy, and the sketches were countless. He used pencils to outline the form and structure, and at the same time studied the rules and compositional laws in sketching, because he often used an eraser to change the draft, so that his thumb grew a cocoon.

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