signed LIUHAISU, inscribed, and with three seals of the artist dated 1981 year ink and color on paper, hanging scroll Liu Haisu (1896–1994) was a painter and educator who combined Western and Eastern techniques, and advocated for this style as a means of modernizing art education in China. Born in Changzhou in the Jiangsu Province, Liu traveled to Shanghai as a teenager, and went on to establish the Shanghai Academy, the first art college in modern China.