She is referred to "in the nineteenth century compilation of information on woman painters drawn from many earlier sources by T'ang Sou-yu, the wife of the Hangchow scholar and book collector Wang Yuan-sun" and is "one of the few women who is mentioned in early Western surveys of Chinese painting and whose work has been studied by modern Chinese scholars." Few of her paintings remain but one example in the National Palace Museum in Taipei is believed to have a "plausible claim to authenticity"; it is a monochrome handscroll painted in 1308 entitled "Bamboo Clumps in Mist and Rain". "Most of Guan Daosheng's scroll paintings appear to have been done for other women of roughly equal status--either her relatives or the wives of her husband's colleagues..."