Twenty-five paintings and nine manuscripts by late Chinese artist and revolutionary He Xiangning (1879-1972), as well as landscape paintings by other Chinese masters, will be displayed starting Sunday at He Xiangning Art Museum.

He was born into a wealthy family in Hong Kong and was one of the earliest Chinese students to study in Japan, where she learned how to paint landscapes and flowers at Hongo Women’s School of Fine Arts in Tokyo. She continued her studies under the Japanese royal artist Raiaki Tanaka, who taught her techniques for painting animals. He’s style was influenced by the Lingnan School of Painting, a modern school of Chinese brush painting popular in Guangdong.

She was the widow of Liao Zhongkai, leader and financier of the Kuomintang (KMT) during the 1920s. Liao was expected to become the KMT leader after Sun Yat-sen’s death, but he was assassinated by gangsters allegedly hired by Chiang Kai-shek.

The widowed He then became an important leader of the leftist wing of the KMT and after 1949 stayed in Beijing. Throughout her life, she enjoyed using her paintings to express her political views.

The exhibition will also display paintings by other masters in the same era of He, including Huang Binhong (1865-1955), Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) and Pan Tianshou (1897-1971) in an effort to explore Chinese landscape paintings in the 20th century.

Opened to the public in 1997, He Xiangning Art Museum is the first national museum named after an individual. The museum is mainly engaged in collecting, displaying and studying He’s painting and calligraphy. It is also organizing exhibitions and collecting works from home and abroad.

Dates: Aug. 24-Nov. 23

Hours: 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Mondays

Venue: He Xiangning Art Museum, Overseas Chinese Town, Nanshan District (南山区华侨城何香凝美术馆)

Metro: Luobao Line, OCT Station (华侨城站), Exit C