Showing posts with label 1933. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1933. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Yun Gee’s “The Last Supper” with the Disciples Identified

The Young Companion 良友 was a Shanghai, China publication with correspondents and reporters in many countries. Yun Gee identified the people in this version of “The Last Supper”. The painting and names appeared in the number 89, June 15, 1934 issue. 



Left to right: Peter, Jesus Christ, John, Bartholomew, James I, Andrew, Thomas, Thaddeus, Philip, Matthew, James, Judas, and Simon


Further Reading and Viewing
Yun Gee’s The Last Supper in The Parish Visitor, St. Peter’s-in-the-Bronx, June 1933
The Last Supper by Yun Gee, St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in the Bronx, The New York Times, June 25, 1933


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(Next post on Wednesday: Lu Shao-fei in The Young Companion 良友)
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Friday, May 18, 2018

Silas Fung

“Random Acts of Legacy”, by Ali Kazimi, is a documentary about the home movies by Silas Fung, a commercial artist who lived in Chicago. (The film is airing in the New York City metropolitan area on WLIW World, May 19 and 20. Also available online at World Channel.)

Fung collected artifacts from the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. Fung’s “Miniature Fair House” was a subject of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not!” on September 6, 1937.

































Further Reading
Lakeland Ledger
(Florida)
May 25, 1980
The Chicago World's Fair never ended for Silas Fung
(click to page 61 of 139)

The Rotarian
August 1980
Keeper of Fair treasures

Lakeland Ledger
(Florida)
June 2, 1986
More than fair collection

Lakeland Ledger
(Florida)
February 26, 1997
Silas Fung, 93, Commercial Artist Who Loved Music

A History of Chinese Christian Union Church of Chicago . . . 1890 to 1965
Compiled by Silas H. Fung
Chinese Christian Union Church of Chicago, 1965
 







 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fung married Edythe Julius Shum. His older brothers were Paul, a cartoonist, and Timothy, also a commercial artist.

Related Posts
Paul Fung at Franklin High School
Paul Fung in Cartoons Magazine
Paul Fung in Sunset Magazine
Paul Fung in The Literary Digest
Paul Fung in Everybody’s Magazine
Paul Fung’s Sheet Music Covers
Paul Fung in the American Art Annual
Paul Fung and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paul Fung and the Landon School
Paul Fung in World’s Finest Comics
Paul Fung in Pen and Ink
Paul Fung in Ron Goulart’s Comics History Magazine
Paul Fung in the Seattle Star
Paul Fung in The Makins’ of a Soldier in Twenty Spasms
Paul Fung in the Tolo Annual 1915
Paul Fung in The Editor & Publisher
Paul Fung in Motion Picture World
Paul Fung in The American Boy

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Friday, July 7, 2017

Anna May Wong in Film Annuals

Picture Show Annual 1933 
Daughter of the Dragon
Shanghai Express


















Film-Lovers Annual 1934
Chu Chin Chow






















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Friday, May 5, 2017

Anna May Wong in The New Movie Magazine

February 1930
page 122: Hollywood Boulevardier

February 1931
page 57: Hollywood Boulevardier
page 58: spot illustration

July 1931
page 111: Hollywood Boulevardier

August 1931
page 11: Where to Write the Movie Stars
page 15: What the Stars Are Doing

November 1931
page 88: Daughter of the Dragon review
page 92: Decline of the West

December 1931
page 9: Where to Write the Movie Stars
page 11: What the Stars Are Doing
page 16: Guide to the Best Films
page 59: Sessue Hayakawa Returns
page 88: Daughter of the Dragon

January 1932
page 48: photograph (below)





















March 1932
page 42: Anna May Wong and Marlene Dietrich photograph (below)





















May 1932
page 61: Shanghai Express photograph

June 1932
page 92: East Is West...

July 1932
page 24: Between Two Worlds; profile with photographs (below)
page 74: profile conclusion
page 80: Edgar Wallace’s Hollywood Diary
page 89: Why Not Chinese as Chinese?
























August 1932
page 8: Chicago World’s Fair photograph (below)





















November 1932
page 98: mention

February 1933
page 63: party photograph (below)





















May 1933
page 64: photograph
pages 116–117: party in Chinatown

June 1933
pages 64–65: party hosted by Quan Ti and her husband Harry Lachman (below)
page 114: recitation in German and Chinese






















July 1933
page 65: photograph
page 105: party guest

August 1933
page 60: mention

September 1933
page 36: Hollywood Nights’ Entertainment

December 1933
page 51: impersonator

January 1934
page 80: mention

March 1934
page 92: mention

August 1934
page 68: mention

October 1934
page 68: taboo to kiss a Caucasian

November 1934
page 68: her parents visit China

December 1934
page 25: photograph (below)
page 47: Limehouse Nights photograph
page 96: Limehouse Nights synopsis





















January 1935
page 7: photograph (below)
p67: Chinatown dinner





















February 1935
page 72: work in London


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Monday, January 27, 2014

Yun Gee 1932–1933


The New York Times
May 8, 1932
Balzac Galleries—Work by…Yun Gee, a Sino-Franco-American, whose work is imaginative and deft, if occasionally lurid. Opened May 3, closes May 28.

 Oakland Tribune
(California)
June 5, 1932
(click images to enlarge)



















Oakland Tribune
February 19, 1933







Oakland Tribune
February 26, 1933




















The Chinese Christian Student
April 1933
p4: Water Colors: Yun Gee Shows Twenty New Abstractions
Six years ago a tousled-haired, wild-eyed Chinese boy broke away from art  school in San Francisco and defied tradition. He painted impressionistic vogues, was acclaimed, and founded a revolutionary school of art. What happened since is San Francisco art history. He hied to Paris, executed fifty canvases, returned to New York, and recently his City Alma Mater on the Coast saw twenty of his new water-colors at the Art Center.

Studies in abstraction, they included eight sensations: four about dancing and four about travel impressions. One group fused sound and tone via composition, another air and water via rhythm movement. Two—The Octopus and Living Stone—were inspired by his wife’s poetry. One was called, “Jade Mountain.”

This new abstractionist angle of Yun Gee amazed visitors, and critics felt that he was lost in Western influence, without a trace of the East. His unity of emotional, abstract expression, leaving no identity of either East or West, was a calamity to them.

In six years Gee has developed from a subject impressionist to an intellectual abstractionist, tarrying long enough in the intervening stages of cubism, surrealism, etc. During the transition, he painted some admirable canvasses that synthesized Chinese art feelings and themes on Western forms. His “Confucius” and “Yang Kwei-fei” brought him high critical claims. His present intellectualism completes the cycle of growth. Inevitably, he will revert to his “Confucius” style, in which medium he is now executing “The Last Supper” for St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in New York.

The New York Times
June 25, 1933
...A painting of “The Last Supper” by Yun Gee, the Chinese-American artist, was publicly shown last week at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in the Bronx, for which it was painted as an altar-piece. A preliminary sketch of the painting was exhibited by the artist in the recent Salons of America, at the American-Anderson Galleries.


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(Tomorrow: Yun Gee Performs)

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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

About the Architect: Poy Gum Lee (Li Jinpei)

1910 United States Federal Census
Name: Poy Lee
Age in 1910: 12
Birth Year: abt 1898
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1910: Manhattan Ward 6, New York, New York [32 Mott Street]
Race: Chinese
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Yet Gip Lee
Father's Birthplace: China
Mother's Name: See Min
Mother's Birthplace: California
Household Members:
Name / Age
Yet Gip Lee 47
See Min 31
Kom Loo 13
Poy Lee 12
Foou Lee 6
Hung Pock Lee 4
Soo Hock Lee 2

 World War I Draft Registration Card
Name: Poy Gum Lee
City: Manhattan [32 Mott Street]
County: New York
State: New York
Birth Date: 17 Jan 1900 [Other sources have the day as 14.]
Race: Oriental (Asian)
Draft Board: 94
Age: 18
Occupation: Student, Pratt Institute
Nearest Relative: Lee Yick Dep
Height/Build: Short/Slender
Color of Eyes/Hair: Borwn/Black
Signature: September 9, 1918

American Consular Service
Cerrtificate of Marriage
Name: Poy G Lee
Age: 26
Birth Year: abt 1900
Birth Place: New York City, New York
Spouse’s Name: Pansy Choye
Spouse’s Age: 21
Spouse’s Birth Year: abt 1905
Spouse’s Birth Place: Shanghai, China
Marriage Date: 18 Sep 1926
Marriage Place: Cantonese Baptist Church, Shanghai, China
Official: Rev. Yeushong Lau
Consular Location: Shanghai, China

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Men of Shanghai and North China
George Nellist, Editor
The Oriental Press, 1933
pages 209, 211 and 212

















The American Institute of Architects
Architect
Firm

 American Architects Directory
First Edition
R.R. Bowker, 1956
page 324

American Architects Directory
Second Edition
R.R. Bowker, 1962
page 411
(Updated August 28, 2015; next post September 20: Yee Kee, Crayon Artist)
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Yook Yee Wong in Guangzhou (Canton), China

1933
Lingnan University Women’s Dormitory
by Yook Yee Wong / Huang Yuyu (黄玉瑜)

(click images to enlarge)

 1935
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital
by Yook Yee Wong (Huang Yuyu)
“YYW” is in the lower right-hand corner
of the drawing
March 1935

Late 1930s

1947
Yook Yee Wong’s residence


2004–2005
Residence at No. 7, Nonglin Shanglu 7 Henglu

Residence on left side of street; garage entrance on far left

Tree near garage entrance

Yellow squares painted for comparison before house was painted.

Courtyard view of house entrance

Third floor

Chimney

Third floor view of courtyard entrance

Third floor view of garage

Courtyard rear wall

Courtyard front wall and garage

Historic Buildings of Guangzhou Plaque
photographed 15 July 2014

Chinese American Understanding: A Sixty-year Search
Chih Meng
China Institute in America, 1981
Chih Meng identified the people he met in Guangzhou (Canton): “...K.P. Pao (MIT) was head of the electric power plant, K. C. Liu (NYU) managed the Bank of Canton, S. C. Chen (VMI) headed the Chemical Warfare Department of Whampoa Military Academy, Y.Y. Wong (MIT) was a leading architect who had designed the new municipal hospital and the Tung Shan housing development, Y. C. Koo (Harvard) was Commissioner of Finance....”

About Yook Yee Wong

born: September 16, 1902 (K.S. 28-8-15), Chung Hing Lee, Hoi Ping District, China
died: May 1942, Baoshang, China (Japanese bombing victim)

Student, village school, China
Student, Ng Lee School, Hong Kong (Fall 1912)
Student, Ng Lee School, Oakland, California (Spring and Summer 1913)
Student, Ng Lee School, San Francisco, California (Fall 1913–Winter 1914)
Student, Pierpont School and the Josiah Quincy School, Boston, Massachusetts (Spring 1914–1917)
Student, Northwest Prepartory School (1917–1918)
Army Registrant, Camp Eustis, Virginia (1918–1919)
Employee, Coolidge & Shattuck, architects (122 Ames Street; 1919–1920)
Student, Tufts College, (1920–1921)
Employee, Coolidge & Shattuck (1921–1922)
Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1923–1925)
Draftsman, Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott (1925–March 1929)



Xin Kuai Bao
August 22, 2013

Guangzhou Daily
February 26, 2014

Yook Yee Wong in The Young Companion 良友


(Updated August 22, 2015; next post,
Yook Yee Wong’s son: Allen Chin 1949, 1951–1953)
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