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Friday, October 21, 2016

Rose Quong in the News, 1925–1959

The Age
(Melbourne, Australia)
May 19, 1925
A Melbourne Actress

The Sydney Morning Herald
(Australia)
July 21, 1928
London Chat. Mme. Ada Crossley and Others

The Glasgow Herald
(Scotland)
March 16, 1929
London Theaters
“The Circle of Chalk”
Screen Actress [Anna May Wong] in Chinese Play

The Sydney Morning Herald
(Australia)
October 6, 1933
Australians in London.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(New York)
February 20, 1934
A Line on Liners

The New York Times
February 21, 1934
‘Forgotten Women’ Luncheon
…Later there will be a program by Rose Quong, well-known Chinese diseuse, in costume.

The Montreal Gazette
(Canada)
February 22, 1934
Chinese Outlook on Life Pictured

The Age
(Melbourne, Australia)
February 23, 1934
About People

The Sydney Morning Herald
(Australia)
February 23, 1934
General Cable News.

The New York Times
February 25, 1934
Unemployed Women Will Gain by Benefit
…In conjunction with the luncheon there will be a program by Rose Quong, Chinese diseuse, who will present character sketches in costumes of the East and West.

The New York Times
February 25, 1934
Society for Ethical Culture, Central Park West and Sixty-fourth Street—Morning, lecture by Miss Rose Quong on “The Philosophy and Religion of China.”

The New York Times
February 28, 1934
Idle Women Aided by Literary Group
…speakers were…Rose Quong

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(New York)
April 17, 1934
Mrs. Jeremiah R. Van Brunt Hostess to
National Hymn Sing Association at Her Home

The Sydney Morning Herald
(Australia)
July 21, 1934
General Cable News.

The Tuscaloosa News
(Alabama)
July 30, 1934
A Gotham Rambler Picks Up a Few Odds and Ends

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(New York)
September 22, 1934
All Faiths Service for Jewish Feast

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(New York)
September 28, 1934
Many Here Await All Faith Rally

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(New York)
September 29, 1934
Plan Service with All Faiths Participating

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(New York)
September 30, 1934
Unite for Service of All Faiths

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(New York)
October 5, 1934
Faith Fellowship Branch Organized at Plymouth Rally

The Milwaukee Journal
(Wisconsin)
October 12, 1934
Noted Engineer, Professors to Speaks to Woman’s Club

The New York Times
October 28, 1934
Alien Drive Urged on Women’s Clubs
…Miss Rose Quong, a Chinese, will be the principal speaker.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(New York)
November 4, 1934
State Federation

The Milwaukee Journal
(Wisconsin)
November 11, 1934
Shows China in Dramatic Sketch Here

The New York Times
November 13, 1934
Clubwomen Urged to Aid Crime Drive
…Miss Rose Quong, an actress born in Australia of Chinese parents, was the artist presented.

Schenectady Gazette
(New York)
November 19, 1934
Women’s Clubs State Conclave Huge Success

The Age
(Melbourne, Australia)
July 13, 1935
Australian Wins Fame Abroad.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(New York)
September 15, 1935
Community Club

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(New York)
January 12, 1936
Garden City Clubs

The New York Times
January 7, 1936
Rose Quong Here for Tour
Rose Quong, Chinese actress born in Australia, who has made a success on the stage in Melbourne and London, arrived yesterday from England on the Cunard White Star liner Franconia to make a tour of the United States in a one-woman show depicting the culture, wit and philosophy of China.

The Age
(Melbourne, Australia)
February 4, 1936
Australian Travellers Return.

Chinese Digest
April 3, 1936
page 5: Chinese Actress in Recital

Chinese Digest
April 17, 1936
page 5: Rose Quong to Give Talk

Chinese Digest
April 24, 1936
page 4: Interpreter of China Delights Audience

Chinese Digest
May 1, 1936
page 3: Miss Quong to Lecture

Chinese Digest
May 8, 1936
page 5: Rose Quong Presented to San Francisco

Chinese Digest
May 15, 1936
page 4: Miss Quong Has China Day

Chinese Digest
May 22, 1936
page 6: Miss Gee Honors Miss Quong

Chinese Digest
May 29, 1936
page 6: Rose Quong China Bound

Chicago Tribune
(Illinois)
October 4, 1936
Chinese Noblewoman Guests at Mrs. Calhoun’s Luncheon

Chinese Digest
October 9, 1936
page 4: Rose Quong Returns

Chinese Digest
October 23, 1936
page 5: Rose Quong at International House

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(New York)
October 27, 1938
Miss Kenyon to Open Women’s Lecture Series

Berkeley Daily Gazette
(California)
October 28, 1936
Chinese Actress to Give Program at University

The Montreal Gazette
(Canada)
December 15, 1936
Fealty to King George VI. Coupled with Grief
at Edward’s Abdication

The Sydney Morning Herald
(Australia)
February 18, 1937
Heard Here and There
see column 6

The New York Times
May 21, 1930
Institute Program List 40 Speakers
Talks on Economic, Social and Cultural Topics Scheduled by Women’s Council
The speaker’s will be…Miss Rose Quong from China.

The Age
(Melbourne, Australia)
June 6, 1939
Anna May Wong

Brooklyn Eagle
(New York)
February 25, 1940
Theater Club

The Age
(Melbourne, Australia)
March 27, 1940
Three Women

The New York Times
March 31, 1940
Tuesday
College Club of White Plains—Meeting, Contemporary Club, 8:15 P/M/ Miss Rose Quong, speaker on “The Soul of China.”

Brooklyn Eagle
(New York)
December 8, 1940
The Chinese Theater

The New York Times
December 8, 1940
Friday
Century Theatre Club—Meeting, Hotel Commodore. Rose Quong, speaker.

The New York Times
March 3, 1941
Casting Items
Rose Quong for “The Circle of Chalk.”

The New York Times
March 25, 1941
News of the Stage
Another opening tonight, this one off Broadway, is “The Circle of Chalk,” at the New School for Social Research, 66 West Twelfth Street, under the auspices of the Studio Theatre…. Derived from the Chinese, James Laver has translated the play, which is based on an adaptation by Klabund, the pseudonym of Alfred Henscjke….A cast of eighteen is headed by Dolly Haas and Rose Quong….

The New York Times
March 27, 1941
“The Circle of Chalk” reviewed by Brooks Atkinson.
…As Mrs. Ma, first wife of the rich tax collector, Rose Quong gives an excellent performance of coarse and cruel duplicity….

Brooklyn Eagle
(New York)
March 29, 1941
Chinese Actress

Brooklyn Eagle
(New York)
December 19, 1941
‘Lady’ Cast Is Now Complete

The New York Times
December 19, 1941
More performers for “Portrait of a Lady”: Ruth Thane McDevitt, Austin Fairman and Rose Quong. Edwin Gordon will be stage manager.

The New York Times
January 5, 1942
News of the Stage
With the deletion in Boston of the parts originally played by Morgan Farley, Rose Quong and Jean Mann, “Portrait of a Lady,” starring Ruth gordon, will be exhibited this week in Philadelphia….

Brooklyn Eagle
(New York)
January 7, 1942
Less to Say Now

The Pelham Sun
(New York)
April 17, 1942
Rose Quong to Speak at Manor Club Luncheon
Anglo-Chinese Actress, in Native Costume Will Speak on Chinese Culture at President’s Luncheon.

Rose Quong, distinguished Anglo-Chinese actress, will speak at the president’s luncheon which will be held at the Manor Club on Tuesday afternoon.

“From disunity and discord, how may we arrive eventually at a collective peace,” Miss Quong asks in her talk on “Oriental Keys to Life and Power.” She interprets the message of the wise men of the Bast to the people of the West comparing the teachings of Christ to those of Confucius, Buddha and Lao-Tse. Dressed in native costume, the charming actress speaks with exquisite diction and philosophical insight that has won for her recognition in the courts of Europe. Born in Australia of Chinese parents, Rose Quong has learned to combine Oriental and Occidental cultures and has made as her specialty as an actress interpretation of Shakespeare.

Brooklyn Eagle
(New York)
May 7, 1942
Carroll Club to Hear Chinese Author

The New York Times
May 17, 1942
N.J. Federation to Vote on Status
…Other speakers on aspects of the war during the convention will be…Miss Rose Quong, Chinese actress, on “Unconquerable China.”

The New York Times
May 22, 1942
Curbs on Gasoline Hits Clubwomen
…Other speakers were…Rose Quong…

The New York Times
October 17, 1943
Women to Discuss Post-War Europe
…Speaknig at the broadcast session of the conference will be…Miss Rose Quong…

Chicago Tribune
(Illinois)
August 6, 1944
Joliet Artists’ League Show a Fine Exhibit

The Age
(Melbourne, Australia)
May 10, 1947
People and Parties

The Age
(Melbourne, Australia)
May 29, 1953
Basso Looks for Spirit of Song

The Tuscaloosa News
(Alabama)
June 12, 1959
Old Game


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Monday, February 22, 2016

Yun Gee in The Argus: A Journal of Art

April 15, 1927
page 4: Yun, who must have a bouillant temperament under a quiet appearance, is sometimes extravagant in his ideas. His attempt at plasters in his Head is amusing, but does not do any good to his reputation. His Drawing and his Portrait of a Man make up for it and prove that he can be a serious artist and has a fine talent.

July 1927
page 2: Dorr Bothwell’s Exhibition
The Modern Art Gallery brought its first season to an auspicious close with a fine exhibition, the paintings and drawings of Dorr Bothwell. Miss Bothwell’s work impressed me as being definitely sincere, unhampered by stylistic emulation of any renowned contemporary….

…The picture of the young Chinese artist, Yun, is another extremely successful piece of work, due to its value as a portrait as well as to compositional solidity….

page 5: The “Portrait of Yun,” by Otis Oldfield, is an excellent canvas, from the standpoint of color, proportion, depth and perspective, but it does not show the genuine young Chinese painter as most people know him. It represents him as a mature and stern man, which is a respectable viewpoint but an altogether different conception to that which most people who know Yun have of this artist.

















page 8: Yun, Chinese artist of San Francisco, will leave for Paris on July 9 for an indefinite period of study and work.

October 1927
page 11: We read in the “Brooklyn Daily Eagle” of August 22nd: “Out of war-torn China has come a young futurist who senses the soul of the world.” This comment refers to Yun Gee, Chinese artist of San Francisco, who is now in Paris preparing for his first exhibit there.

After reviewing some of the work of Yun, the art critic of the “Daily Eagle” concludes with the observation that “Yun’s work provokes thought. His immaturity and faulty technique yield before the idea.”

November 1927
page 8: Modern Gallery Elections
At the annual election of officers last month, Julius Pommer was re-elected president and Marian Trace secretary of the Modern Gallery, a group of young San Francisco artists. The organization has grown so prosperous that it was found necessary to create a new office, that of treasurer. Jacques Schnier was elected to fill this responsible position.

Ten directors, who are likewise the charter members of the Modern Gallery, will continue in office. They are Dorr Bothwell, Ruth Cravath, Frank Dunham, Parker L. Hall, Rosalie Maus, Ward Montague, Julius Pommer, Marian Trace, Don Works and Yun Gee.

December 1927
page 10: Yun, the Chinese painter who started his artistic career in San Francisco, held a one man show in Paris during the month of November, at the Galerie Carmine. Besides this exhibit, three of his pictures have been accepted by the Princess Lucien Murat and are hung at her gallery, “Fermé la Nuit.”

June 1928
page 6: A young modern who may disappoint the prophesies which were made for his future is Yun Gee, if his Paris acquaintances turn out to be mere snobs trying to encourage him in the direction of the eccentric and in a style which, so long as it is a transitory experiment, is interesting, but which will lose its value if it becomes a set mode of expression. This does not particularly refer to the two paintings by Yun exhibited last month at the East West, as they were done last year. It is rather a far distant warning from those who follow his work in the French capital where he resides at present.

July-August 1928
page 16: Advertisement
For Sale—George Grosz’s “Ecce Homo,” $10; two Drew etchings, $5 each; a Yun crayon drawing, $3.50, and a few color reproductions of masters and moderns, 50c to $2.50.
Little Pierre Library
508 Powell St. San Francisco


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Monday, November 25, 2013

Yun Gee 1940

The New York Times
Yun Gee-Paintings. Temple Galleries. (April 30-May 12.)

 Brooklyn Eagle
(click images to enlarge)

At Temple’s exhibition galleries, 2 E. 34th St., 100 paintings by Yun Gee are cluttered together in the balcony show rooms in chaotic antique shop fashion. The modern European tradition permeates the bulk of Mr. Gee’s works. He takes as a theme the conventional statuesque Confucius and transform it into a lifelike personality, with a technique which is a composite of Derain and Picasso. Very odd and attractive are the portraits of Western World people done upon Chinese scrolls, decorated with Chinese poems in Chinese script. A fantastic portrait of the 600 B.C. philosopher, Lao Tze, holding the pearl of wisdom has the effect of an oriental mystic. It is quite fascinating though it is rendered in a modernistic technique reminiscent of Soutine. A mixture of the esthetic qualities of the Orient and the Occident always breeds a unique art, and young Yun Gee is a good example.

The New York Times
The exotic note of the week was struck by the show of paintings by Yun Gee, at the Temple Gallery, 2 East Thirty-fourth Street. If the artist himself were to come to the gallery unaware of the exhibitor--could such a metaphysical potentiality be arranged—he might well wonder at the variety offered: scroll paintings, Chinese sages, Paris and French village street scenes, figure pieces, and somewhat allegorical or symbolical paintings. A rather florid esthetic chameleonism pervades much of this work, which is, however, not without interest.

The New York Times
June 22, 1940
A portrait of General Maxine Weygand, painted in Paris by Yun Gee, Chinese artist, in 1938, has been given by the artist to the American-French War Relief, 744 Fifth Avenue, where it is on exhibition and sale. The painting was shown early this month at the Arthur U. Newton Gallery.

The New York Times
September 10, 1940
A mural entitled “The Spirit of Chinese Resistance,” by Yun Gee, has been placed on exhibition at the Young China Club, 18 Mulberry Street.


Yun Gee at Montross Gallery
785 Fifth Avenue, New York City

The New York Times
Proceeds from the sale of paintings by Yun Gee, Chinese artist, now exhibiting at the Montross Gallery, will be donated to Madame Chiang Kai-shek's war orphans. The artist is donating the proceeds through the Chinese Women's Relief Association, which is sponsoring the exhibition.

New York Sun
December 14, 1940

Brooklyn Eagle
December 15, 1940
Yun Gee Improves
At the Montross Gallery, young Mr. Yun Gee’s 26 oils show up ever so much better than his works last year at a 34th St. antique shop. His interests vary from an idealistic portrait of Lao Tze (master of Confucius) to “Lake at Versailles,” “Botanical Gardens in the Bronx” and “Central Park Views.” These, together with other landscapes, street scenes and symbolic canvases, bear the stamp of modernistic European training mixed with enough of Mr. Gee’s natural Chinese design tendencies to make for heterogeneous picturizations.


The New York Times
December 15, 1940
Chinese Art on View
Exhibit Will Be for Benefit of Chinese War Orphans
A special showing of paintings by Yun Gee, modern Chinese artisit, will be opened tomorrow at an exhibit sponsored by the Chinese Women’s Relief Association of New York for the benefit of its fund for Chinese war orphans. Mrs. Lin Yutang, wife of the author and president of the association, heads the list of hostesses for the exhibition, which will be held at the Montross Gallery, 785 Fifth Avenue.

The New York Times
December 15, 1940
There is not such an amazing variety of styles and subjects in the current exhibition of paintings by Yun Gee at the Montross as was true of his somewhat retrospective exhibition last year. There are, to be sure, portraits of Confucius and Lao Tze and Ambrose Vollard (the late connoisseur circling one eye with his fingers to appraise the better what he is looking at); and there are landscapes that range from Versailles to a lake in Central park. This last presents that touch of fantasy one has learned to expect from this ultra-versatile oriental painter, the touch in this case being an animal (unicorn or donkey) frightening and apparently frightened by birds. There is a painting, too, of llamas whose formal presentation should appeal to our best Picassoids. Flowers, a Madonna and a pigmentarily explosive view of San Francisco’s Chinatown are other themes which have found expression. Till Dec. 21. 


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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Kwei Dun a.k.a. Kwei Teng at the Brooklyn Museum

The Rockford Morning Star
(Illinois)
May 12, 1929

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(New York)
May 26, 1929


Group Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings
by American and Foreign Artists
June 1, 1929 through October 1, 1929

Kwei Teng
An unusual group of works are those of Kwei Teng who was born in Soochow, China, 1902. Mr. Teng has applied himself very seriously to the study of painting which included ten years of self-study in Chinese painting and ten years of self-training in the old Chinese art of finger painting, in which technique he has established his own method and style.

He continued his education at the University of Washington, where he majored in painting and sculpture and after graduation lectured on Oriental culture and taught painting to American students.

By his understanding of Oriental and Western education he hopes to be “one of the builders of the bridge between Western and Eastern civilizations”.

His painting is in the pure Chinese manner but he is fully aware of the accomplishment and aims of the art of the West. Teng has exhibited in his native city in San Francisco, Rockford, Ill., and Seattle Wash. One of his bas-reliefs is permanently installed in the College of Mines Building, University of Washington.


The New York Times
June 9, 1929
...There are Chinese paintings by Kwei Teng—“in the Old Manner”—yet with surplusage eloquent of the number of things unloaded by the Western world upon Chinese reticence....

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Sun Yow Pang, Student and Artist

The Twenty-Ninth Annual Report
of the Trustees of the Cooper Union
for the Advancement of Science and Art
May 26, 1888
Ornamental Drawing.
Third Year.
P. Sun Yow
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Newton Register
(New York)
April 17, 1890

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(New York)
September 21, 1890
“Chinese Christians”

March 3, 1891 
“Two Sunday Schools Celebrate with Supper and Song.”

The Sun
(New York)
December 30, 1891
“Chinese Morality”

Daily Standard-Union
(Brooklyn, New York)
January 6, 1892
“Left the Hall”

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Yun Gee in Paris

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(New York)
August 31, 1930
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This article, without the photographs, is in the book,
Yun Gee: Poetry, Writings, Art, Memories (2003).


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