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Can anyone help ID the artists on these pieces? They look pretty old, but I came across about 10 different paintings. I figured I would start with these 3. One of them had an envelope attached to the back with an old piece of paper with characters on it. Any idea what this says? Thanks for any help.

Pic.1-8,
樂山篁子生　-　Leshan Huangzi-sheng -
Scholar of Bamboo Grove from Leshan - art-name
Lower seal,
樂山　- Leshang
Unidentifiable artist
Pic.4-5,
Scribling imitating Chinese writting.

With regards,
I.Nagy

reproductions of Rakusan woodblock prints I think: http://www.rakusan.net/gallery.html

The first two examples are indeed reproductions of prints by the Japanese Artist Tsuchiya Rakusan. They were cut from pages of the Foster booklet (link to article attached). 樂山 reads 'Rakuzan' in Japanese. The designs shown are from numbers 17 and 36 in the first series.

URL Title :original booklet source

Pictures 8-10,
大維己未倫敦　-　Dawei, Year of Earth-Sheep (1919,1949) Lundun - London -
Seal,
鄭大維　-　Zheng Dawei

Name of unidentifiable artist: Zheng Dawei
I have seen already pictures of dogs from the same painter.

With regards,
I.Nagy

Should be "Kwo Da-Wei" I think: 郭大維
He also wrote a book for western practitioners on Chinese brushwork

Thanks Rat, you are right,
郭大維　‐ Guo Dawei a.k.a.
"Kwo Da-Wei" or David Kwok 1919-2003
Studied painting from Qi Baishi. After the war went to Taiwan, then in the 1950s settled in the US. Specialized in figure and genre subjects
I.Nagy

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