An interview with the Artist Step by Step Demonstrations Gallery
A First -Hand Look inside the Studio of a Master Watercolorist by Dong Kingman and his wife Helena Kuo Kingman
This book is about the artist's process, more than a showcase of his work. Informative,Dong gives Invaluable Advice ,a Great value for a painter at any level.
Details of Dong Kingman's method and philosophy of his art.
AUTOGRAPHED Hardcover Signed and dated. 1981 By the Artist
143 pages
Pre-Owned with dustjacket.Dust jacket has shelf wear and rips,bends,missing some paper at the bottom on back,please see photos for better/more description.
Inside pages are very nice.
ISBN 0-8230-2907-7
Dong Kingman (Chinese: 曾景文, 31 March 1911 – 12 May 2000) was a Chinese American artist 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 the Hollywood film 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.
In the late 1930s, Kingman served as an artist in the Works Progress Administration,[1] painting over 300 works with the relief program. In 1942 and 1944, Kingman received the Guggenheim Fellowship.[2] During World War II, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, but was transferred to work as a map artist in the Office of Strategic Services[1] at Camp Beal, California and Washington, D.C, by a fan of his work, Eleanor Roosevelt.[2]
Kingman settled in Brooklyn, New York after the war, where he held a position as an art instructor at Columbia University and Hunter College from 1946 for the next ten years. In New York he was associated with Midtown, Wildenstein and Hammer galleries.
Kingman settled in Brooklyn, New York after the war, where he held a position as an art instructor at Columbia University and Hunter College from 1946 for the next ten years. In New York he was associated with Midtown, Wildenstein and Hammer galleries.
