The River Flows Forever

現代歐玖年繪江河篔古流圖紙本痓綎

A student of Chao Shao-an, Ou Haonian delights in painting from life and often portrays local scenery during his world travels. He also uses famous poems as painting titles. The title here refers to a verse by the Tang dynasty poet Du Fu (712–770).

As a gift to the Asian Art Museum, Ou Haonian painted this Chinese landscape from memory and composed the following commemorative poem:
Lofty cliffs tower like lines of swords.
Heavy sand buried iron weapons for thousands of years.
The Yangzi River flows east, waves surging,
How such a common scene gives pleasure to the hero!
Jimao year [1999], midsummer, while in San Francisco I recalled my travels and painted this, and composed a verse to present to the Asian Art Museum as a gift to keep forever.
Signed, Ou Haonian