A year before his death, Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010) donated his paintings to the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, China Art Museum in Shanghai and Zhejiang Art Museum in Hangzhou.

Wu Keyu, the eldest son of Wu Guanzhong, recalls when mentioning the dozens of works left after the donations, the artist asked him to keep them to "server a very important, useful purpose in future".

On July 1, Wu Keyu donated this body of works, including 65 oil and Chinese ink paintings and one sketch book, to Tsinghua University where Wu Guanzhong taught for years. They have been added to the collection of Tsinghua University Art Museum, and will be featured at a grand art exhibition marking his centennial commemoration at the museum in November.

At the donation ceremony, Tsinghua also announced the establishment of Wu Guanzhong Art Research Fund in dedication to the studies of Wu's art and thought.

Wu Guanzhong taught at Tsinghua's architecture department for few years in the early 1950s. He was later transferred to lecturing at the central academy of arts and design, now Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University, for a decade until retirement in the late 1980s.

"No matter how many honors father received in his lifetime, his last and formal title was a professor of Tsinghua University," Wu Keyu said at the ceremony.

"I believe I've fulfilled father's wish, donating this body of works that he entrusted to me to Tsinghua University, 'for a purpose of most importance' as he said to me."