DONG KINGMAN Watercolors SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA art artist WPA ... Chinatown

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DONG KINGMAN\'S WATERCOLORSKIngman, DongPublished byNew York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1980. First Edition . Very good cloth hardcover in dustjacket with small edge tears and wear else good fully intact ( price still present front flap) ;144 pages. 100 b&w illustrations and 120 plates in full color. Interview with the artist, step-by-step demonstrations, gallery.HONG KONG SANFRANCISCO CHINATOWN YOSEMITE HONOLULU HAWAII PARIS VENICE NEW YORK NEW ORLEANS ...
\"Dong Kingman(Chinese:曾景文, 31 March 1911– 12 May 2000) was aChinese Americanartist and one of America\'s leading watercolor masters. As a painter on the forefront of the California Style School of painting, he was known for his urban and landscape paintings, as well as his graphic design work in theHollywoodfilm industry. He has won widespread critical acclaim and his works are included in over 50 public and private collections worldwide, including Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Brooklyn Museum; deYoung Museum and Art Institute, Chicago....Kingman returned to the United States in his late teens. 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 theWorks Progress Administration,[1]painting over 300 works with the relief program. In 1942 and 1944, Kingman received theGuggenheim Fellowship.[2]DuringWorld War II, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, but was transferred to work as a map artist in theOffice of Strategic Services[1]at Camp Beal, California and Washington, D.C, by a fan of his work,Eleanor Roosevelt.[2]

Kingman settled inBrooklyn, New Yorkafter the war, where he held a position as an art instructor atColumbia UniversityandHunter Collegefrom 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 writerHelena Kuoin 1956.[3]Kuo died in 1999.[4]

During the 1950s, Kingman served as a United States cultural ambassador and international lecturer for theDepartment 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\",The Sand Pebblesand 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 theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and SciencesinBeverly Hills, California.

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.S. and China when the Ministry of Culture of thePeople\'s Republic of Chinahosted a critically acclaimed exhibition that drew over 100,000 people....\"WIKIPEDIA