Taipei Times
Date: Jul 17, 2016
By: Wu Po-hsuan / Staff reporter
Two paintings by renowned painter Yang San-lang (楊三郎) that had been kept in storage for
Teachers, students and friends of National Taiwan University’s department of forestry and resource conservation yesterday hold up two renovated paintings by Taiwanese painter Yang San-lang. Photo: Wu Po-hsuan, Taipei Times
about six decades and nearly discarded by National Taiwan University’s department of forestry and resource conservation are to see the light of day after they were salvaged and restored.
Yang, born in 1907, is regarded as a national treasure for his contributions to the establishment and development of Taiwanese art. He died in 1995.
Department head Yuan Hsiao-wei (袁孝維) said Yang painted the two pictures, titled Landscape I and Landscape II, 58 years ago at the behest of Tso Mao-hsiung (鄒茂雄), an alumnus, to mark the inauguration of the department’s research building.
Due to Tso’s background as a former student, he had access to the Xitou Forest in Nantou County and took Yang there, where he painted the pieces, Yuan said, adding that Yang agreed to let the department purchase the two paintings in 1958 for a small fee. [FULL STORY]
