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Wu HONGZHANG - born 1940
Wu Hongzhang was born 1940 in Wu Jiang City. He began to create woodblock prints in 1961. In 1982 he attended advanced studies at the Chinese Central Fine Art Academy. The artist is a member of the Chinese Artist Association, of the Chinese Printmakers Association and a painter of Jiang Su Woodblock Print Academy. Wu Hongzhang's artworks were exhibited and have been collected in Germany, Japan, Canada, Belgium, Taiwan and Malaysia.
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Literature sources used for artist biographies:
- Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako, "Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints 1900-1975", University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X
- Lane, Richard, "Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print", Fribourg, 1978, ISBN 0-914427-54-7
- Laurance, P.Roberts, "A Dictionary of Japanese Artists", John Weatherhill Inc., New York, 1976
- Frances Blakemore "Who is Who in Modern Japanese Prints", John Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1975. ISBN 0-8348-0101-9
- Annual CWAJ catalogs