Does Anyone Sell Chen Hongshou Art on a T-Shirt?
Yes. Vestige Press currently sells 2 different Chen Hongshou works printed on heavyweight garment-dyed t-shirts, each made from an archival public-domain scan of the original and numbered as an archive plate. They are listed on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/VestigePress. The Chen Hongshou designs sit in the grunge style category of the archive.
Every Chen Hongshou design currently in print
- Paintings after Ancient Masters: Landscape in the Style of Ni Zan (1598) — Archive Plate No. 075, Cleveland Museum of Art, artwork 149606.
- Paintings after Ancient Masters: Portrait of Tao Yuanming (1598) — Archive Plate No. 076, Cleveland Museum of Art, artwork 149611.
Why these are legal to print
Every work above predates copyright expiry and is published under an open-access license by the institution that holds it — the catalog number and license for each one is listed on its own page. Vestige Press restores and composes the plate; the underlying artwork belongs to everyone.