Wang C. C. (Jiqian) 王己千, 1907-2003.

C.C. Wang (Chi-ch'ien Wang) was born in Wu County, Jiangsu Province, China in 1907 and died in New York City on July 3, 2003. He is best known as a painter, calligrapher, and collector of Chinese art. In painting, he is especially known for basing the brushwork of traditional landscape painting on chance effects created by pretreating the paper--for example, sometimes stamping paper with wooden planks to create a wood grain pattern, or crumpling papers into balls and dipping their projecting angles into ink. The resulting lines, blots, and patterns are then converted into landscapes by adding traditional elements such as trees, houses, or rocks in ink or color. He may also add washes of light color to suggest variations in light patterns or clouds. This is a variation on the "splashed ink" technique. His work draws on both Chinese and Western painterly techniques.

See: Silbergeld, Jerome. Mind Landscapes: the Paintings of C.C. Wang. Seatle: University of Washington Press, c1987.