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Seong Moy
Chinese American Modernist Abstract "Red Tapestry" Color Lithograph

1982

About the Item

Printed on French Arches paper. Hand signed and numbered 11/35 Artist's Proof Seong Moy was born in Canton on April 12, 1921 but he immigrated to the United States in 1931, settling with his family in St. Paul, Minnesota. Moy began his art studies as a teenager at the WPA Federal Art Project. He continued his art education at the St. Paul School of Art under Cameron Booth, and the WPA Graphic Workshop at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN. In 1941, he was awarded a scholarship to the Art Students League in New York where he studied with Vaclav Vytlacil and that same year he studied at the Hofmann School with Hans Hofmann. Moy’s education was supplemented by his visits to museums, his favorites where the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and galleries, where he said you could go to five galleries and see five completely different styles of work. The artists who were his strongest influences at this time included Matisse, Picasso, Bonnard, and Miro. With each of these artists he admired a different aspect of their work, Matisse’s use of color, Miro’s imagery, and Picasso for his controversy, his surprising innovations and his every shifting styles. In the fall of 1942 Moy enlisted as a serviceman, where he was trained in technical photography and worked mainly as a reconnaissance and aerial photographer.Later in 1941, Moy enlisted in the Air Force and put his art education on hold. He served in the 14th Air Force, the "Flying Tigers," in the China-India-Burma Theater where he worked as an aerial reconnaissance photographer in China and Southeast Asia. After the war, he returned to New York with his new wife, Sui Yung. He returned to the Art Students League on the G.I. Bill and re-established his relationship with Cameron Booth, who was now teaching in New York. Although Mr. Moy was primarily a painter during the post-wars years, he began making prints when he received a fellowship to work at Stanley William Hayter's graphic art workshop, Atelier 17, which had moved to New York in 1940 after its founding in Paris in 1927. The workshop was a center for the development of new techniques and attitudes towards printmaking. Moy began his teaching career in 1951 with painting classes at the University of Minnesota. Over the years he taught part time at various universities and colleges, including Smith College, Vassar College, Cooper Union, the Pratt Graphic Center and the Art Students League. Following the lead of Hans Hofmann, Moy opened his summer school in Provincetown in 1954 and taught painting, drawing and printmaking for twenty years. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955 and became professor of art at the City College in New York. Moy’s work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum and the New York Public Library.Education: Saint Paul School of Minneapolis Art Students League, studies with Vaclav Vytlacil Hans Hofmann School, 1941-42 Awards: Fellowships, William Hayter’s Atelier 17, 1948-1950 Whitney Fellowship, 1950-51 Guggenheim Grant, 1955-56 Minneapolis Institute Annual Prize Philadelphia Print Club Annual Prize American Federation of the Arts Commission, 1965 Emily Lowe Award, Audubon Artists Annual, 1967 Society of American Graphic Artists Award, 1967 Teaching Appointments: University of Minnesota, 1950 Indiana University, 1952-54 Smith College, 1954-55 Vassar College, 1955 Cooper Union Pratt Graphic Center Columbia University Art Students League City College of New York Seong Moy School of Painting and Graphic Arts, Provincetown Selected Exhibitions: American Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1951 University of Illinois Biennials Carnegie International, 1955 Whitney Museum Annual of Sculpture and Graphics, 1966-67 Hacker Gallery, 1951 (solo) Esther Robles Gallery (solo) Everston Museum, Syracuse, NY (solo) Kyoto Yamada Gallery, Japan (solo) Public Collections: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Brooklyn Museum New York Public Library Pennsylvania Academy Library of Congress Smithsonian Institution Worcester Art Museum Brooks Museum of Memphis Indiana University Baltimore Museum University of Minnesota Smith College Whitney Museum of American Art The Woodward Foundation
  • Creator:
    Seong Moy (1921 - 2013, American, Chinese)
  • Creation Year:
    1982
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 22.5 in (57.15 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    minor wear.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38213383722
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