signed WUQINGXIA, inscribed, and with two seals of the artist dated Guiyou year（2008） ink and color on silk, hanging scroll Born on the cusp of a change in attitudes about education for women in China,Wu Qingxia (1910-2008) became one of the 20th century’s leading Modernists working in the traditional style.She is renowned for studies of smoothly painted,brightly colored carp – symbols of challenge and challenge overcome.