Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Invented in China around 300 B.C.E, the bamboo brush was originally intended solely for traditional calligraphy and ink painting ...

HAVING heard that the Asian Gallery, on East Eightieth Street, was exhibiting the work of a man who paints pictures of nothing but bamboo, we recently stopped by to talk with the painter, Dr.

In China, evergreen bamboo, pine, and plum trees are traditionally associated with winter and also closely identified with the scholar in private life. Known as the scholar's "three friends of winter" ...

Open and extended: 23.7 x 27.9 cm (9 5/16 x 11 in.) ...