A SUITE OF SEVEN YAN'AN SCHOOL WOODCUTS1940s Seven woodcuts on paper, unmounted, including works by or attributed to Gu Yuan The Eighth Route Army in Production ; Zhang Ju Culture Peddler ; Xiao Su (Zhao Keren) Voting ; Wang Bingguo Resting ; Yan Han; and two attributed to Shi Lu by an inscription in the margins. 11 x 8 3/4in (28 x 22.5cm) 延安版畫七幅 二十世紀四十年代 Provenance: The owner's family member acquired while traveling in Korea with a missionary who had served in both China and Korea in the late 1940s 來源： 藏家親屬隨一位傳教士於韓國旅遊時所得，該傳教士曾於1940年代僑居中韓兩國 This suite of woodcuts was produced by artists affiliated with the Lv Xun Academy of Art, which was established in Yan'an in 1938, an educational center with the purpose of training artists. The medium of woodcuts was embraced by the artists, following several successful exhibitions in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Beijing in the early 1930s. For the Yan'an artists, this new form of expression provided a potent voice to register current events and societal issues in an inexpensive means.