Vintage Dong Kingman Original Watercolor Signed & Framed

Vintage Dong Kingman Original Watercolor Signed & Framed
Vintage Dong Kingman Original Watercolor Signed & Framed
Vintage Dong Kingman Original Watercolor Signed & Framed
Vintage Dong Kingman Original Watercolor Signed & Framed
Vintage Dong Kingman Original Watercolor Signed & Framed
Vintage Dong Kingman Original Watercolor Signed & Framed
Vintage Dong Kingman Original Watercolor Signed & Framed

Vintage Dong Kingman Original Watercolor Signed & Framed
Fresh from a California Estate. Here is a wonderful orignial Watercolor by Dong Kingman. Frame measures 30-1/2" x 24-1/2".

Signed lower left: "Kingman" w/ Chinese characters. A couple of light spots on the matte (most notably one visible upper right) and some holes/tears on the paper backing. Dong Kingman was born Dong Moy Shu in Oakland, California.

The son of Chinese immigrants from Hong Kong. At the age of five and a half, he traveled with his family back to Hong Kong, where his father established a dry goods business. Hearing that he aspired to be an artist, his instructor gave him the name "King Man" lit. "Scenery" and "composition" in Cantonese. He would later combine the two names into Kingman, placing his family name first in accordance with Chinese naming conventions, creating the name Dong Kingman.

Kingman continued his education at the Chan Sun Wen School, where he excelled at calligraphy and watercolor painting. He studied under Szeto Wai, the Paris-trained head of the Lingnan Academy. It was under Szeto's instruction that Kingman was first exposed to Northern European trends.

Kingman would later state that Szeto was his first and only true influence. In 1929 he attended the Fox Morgan Art School while holding down a variety of jobs. It was at this time that he chose to concentrate on watercolor painting.

His critical breakthrough occurred in 1936, when he gained a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Art Association. This exhibition brought him national recognition and success.

In the late 1930s, Kingman served as an artist in the Works Progress Administration. Painting over 300 works with the relief program. In 1942 and 1944, Kingman received the Guggenheim Fellowship. He was drafted into the U.

Army, but was transferred to work as a map artist in the Office of Strategic Services. At Camp Beal, California and Washington, D. C, by a fan of his work, Eleanor Roosevelt. Kingman settled in Brooklyn, New York. After the war, where he held a position as an art instructor at Columbia University.

From 1946 for the next ten years. In New York he was associated with Midtown, Wildenstein and Hammer galleries.

Kingman had married Janice Wong in 1926. She died in 1954 and he married the writer Helena Kuo.

During the 1950s, Kingman served as a United States cultural ambassador and international lecturer for the Department of State. In the 1950s and 1960s, Kingman worked as an illustrator in the film industry, designing the backgrounds for a number of major motion pictures including 55 Days at Peking. And the Hollywood adaptation of Flower Drum Song. Over 300 of his film-related works are permanently housed at the Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study at the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 1981, Kingman made history as the first American artist to be featured in a solo exhibition following the resumption of diplomatic relations between the U.

And China when the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China. Hosted a critically acclaimed exhibition that drew over 100,000 people.

The 1990s saw major exhibitions in Taiwan at the Taipei. Modern Art Museum in 1995 and the Taichung. Dong Kingman died of pancreatic cancer in his home in New York City in 2000, at age 89. The item "Vintage Dong Kingman Original Watercolor Signed & Framed" is in sale since Friday, August 04, 2017. This item is in the category "Art\Paintings".

The seller is "gentry-jorgensen" and is located in Castro Valley, California. This item can be shipped worldwide.