Shao Fang Sheng

Shao Fang Sheng (September 13, 1918 – April 22, 2009)[1][2] is a well-known Chinese artist who is also one of the few apprentices of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Shao came from a well-known industrial family that had their roots in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, China.

She was a very athletic in her youth, representing her city Tianjin, as a short stop and nationally in softball as a teenager.

She taught Mandarin to John King Fairbank, a well-known scholar from Harvard University, in the American Embassy, Nanjing.

Furthermore, her ability to paint with watercolours was noticed by several well-known painting masters, and she was commissioned by the Nationalist Government of China, to duplicate the fresco within the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, situated in the Taklamakan Desert, China.