Shen C.Y. Fu *76

Shen died in Taipei, Taiwan, April 16, 2024, at the age of 86.

He was born in Shanghai Nov. 4, 1937, during the second Sino-Japanese War. While a teenager, his family moved to Taiwan, where he later received prizes in painting, calligraphy, and seal carving. A gifted artist, Shen’s aptitude for authenticating calligraphy and painting set him on an academic path, as well as on a path to the United States. 

He earned a bachelor’s degree from the Taiwan Normal University in 1959, and a master of arts from the Chinese Cultural College in 1965. A John D. Rockefeller III fellow from 1968 to 1971, Shen earned a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1976. He joined the faculty at Yale as an associate professor, and later became a senior curator of Chinese art at the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer and Sackler galleries in Washington, D.C. 

Following two decades of work and study in the United States, Shen returned to Taipei, where he took on key roles at the University of Taiwan and the National Palace Museum as both a scholar and artist. He was a member of the Association for Asian Studies.

Shen is survived by his wife, Margaret.

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