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     Shirl Smithson, president of the Oil Painters of America, has 
compiled in this coffee-table sized book 121 superb full color
reproductions of recent works by Zhiwei Tu, plus two more on 
the heavy-gauge dust jacket.  The paintings are expertly placed
in their artistic and historical context in the introductory foreword 
by Prof. Chi Ke of the Guangzhou Institute of Fine Arts 
(translated by Hu Zheng and Steven Kelly). 

     Included among the reproductions are details from a number
of mural-sized works now in museums and private collections, as 
well as a compelling collection of figurative images from Chinese
legend, contemporary China, and Tibet. The book is a handsome
work of art in itself. A beautiful restrospective of this modern 
master's most dramatic works to date. 

Published by Arbor Hill Press in 1996. ISBN 0-9637547-5-0; Library of Congress Catalog
Card No. 96-96630. Condition: new. Pages: 201. Full color plates: 121, plus dust jacket. 
Biographical essay by Shirl Smithson. Essay by Prof. Chi Ke of the Ghuangzhou Institute
of Fine Arts (trans. by Hu Zheng and Steven Kelly). Book design by John Washington. 
Photographs by Michael Lincoln and Leon Lee
Retail price:  $300