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Dong Kingman, Golden Gate Bridge, Signed #1512315

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Dong Kingman, Golden Gate Bridge, Signed #1512315
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Artist: Dong Kingman

Title: San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge

Year: 1976

Medium: Lithograph on arches, signed and numbered in pencil

Edition: 300, AP

Paper Size: 24" x 35.5"



Printer: American Atelier





Dong Kingman was born Dong Moy Shu on March 31, 1911 in Oakland, California. At age five he returned with his family to Hong Kong where his father established a dry goods business. According to Chinese custom, Kingman was given his new name when he entered school. Hearing that he aspired to be an artist, his teacher gave him the name of King (scenery) Man (composition). In later years he combined the two words into Kingman and following Chinese custom, he used the family name first and the given name second, thus Dong Kingman.



At the Chan Sun Wen School, Kingman excelled at calligraphy and watercolor painting, and while his family, including his mother, an amateur painter, didn't encourage him, he was not discouraged in his love of art. He studied with Szeto Wai, the Paris-trained head of the Lingnan Academy, who introduced Kingman to Northern European trends. Szeto Wai, he would acknowledge, was his "first and only true influence."



Kingman returned to Oakland, California in his late teens in 1929 and attended the Fox Morgan Art School while holding down a variety of jobs. Here the artist decided to concentrate on watercolors. At the time, Charles Burchfield, John Marin and George Grosz were the leading practitioners ...
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<tr><td>Condition:excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1976</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:24</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:35.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Dong Kingman, Golden Gate Bridge, Signed</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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