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Please help me identify the artist who did this watercolor. I am trying to identify the artist who did this watercolor that I love and my wife does not so that I can get this out of my closet and back on a proper wall where it belongs. I bought this from a garage sale... people said they got it from a nabisco heir estate sale.

According to the parent of a former student it is a poem Shan Xing by Du Mu... But I would like to know who painted this piece.

Any information would be helpful (year, artist, language, silk or paper, etc. Was the parent of my former student corect about it being a Du Mu poem? I will try sending an image of the entire landscape when I get a chance. I have found 3 similar artists so far: Huang Junbi, Huang Binhon, and Zang Daiquin... But the stamps are different.

遠上寒山石径斜　
白雲深處有人(家
停車坐爰楓林晩
̪霜葉江於二月花
High up in the cold mountain a stone path rises
to the house in deep white clouds
I stop the carrige and sit down in the
maple forest at evening time
The frozen red of the leaves are more red than any other February (Spring)flower

Poem from Du Fu 杜枚
Title,　山行　－Shanxing - Mountain hike
Colophon,
甲子初夏　- Year of Wood-rat (...1924,1984) Beginning of Summer
融斎筆　- Brush of Rong Zhai 　－In Harmony with the Study-room - (Pseudonym)
Seal,
徐植申印　-　Seal of Xu Zhishen　（Full name)
融斎　-　Rong Zhai　（Pseudonym)
Leisure seal,
淡泊　‐Not seek fame and wealth

I could not find the above artist neither in my books nor on the web.

With regards,
I.Nagy

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