Showing posts with label Brooklyn Museum. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Yun Gee Performs


The New York Times
January 7, 1934
Tomorrow evening the Chinese modernist painter, Yun Gee, who is also a dancer, will give a dance recital in conjunction with the exhibition of his paintings at the National Musical Benefit Society. His program will be as follows: Ancient Chinese Dragon Knife Dance, Song of Li Po, performed on Yan Chum (Chinese piano), Chinese Immortal Sword Dance, accompanied by tom-tom and cymbals; Ancient Song of “The Sorrow of Cho Kun,” Yan Kew Fei (for Chinese flute); Dragon Spear Dance. The dancer will be assisted by C.Y. Chu.


The New York Times
January 14, 1934
...With a dance recital of dubious artistic quality and held under most trying conditions, the Chinese modernist Yun Gee opened last Monday evening at 21 Gramercy Park an exhibition of paintings. At his best when departing the least insistently from Chinese traditions, Yun Gee has on view little if anything that can compare favorably with the mural designs he contributed to the Museum of Modern Art's American mural exhibition in 1932.

The New York Times
May 7, 1934
...Music and art of China and Egypt will be discussed. Yun Gee will illustrate dances and play on the Chinese flute and piano.

The New York Times
June 3, 1934
List of the year’s performances includes two performances by Yun Gee for the National Music Benefit Society, and University Settlement.

Brooklyn Eagle








Continuing its United Nations series, the Brooklyn Museum will present a free program of Chinese music Saturday afternoon in the lecture hall.

The program to include both classical and modern Chinese music, will be given by David LeVita and Yun Gee.

The New York Times
September 18, 1943
A concert of Chinese music will be presented tomorrow at 3:30 at the Brooklyn Museum by the Chinese People's Chorus, under Liu Liang-mo, and Yun Gee, singer and instrumentalist.


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(Tomorrow: Yun Gee in Paris, 1938)

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Yun Gee at the Brooklyn Museum


The New York Times
June 12, 1931
Show by Brooklyn Museum.
Annual Summer Exhibition
…Painters not in the International Group are provided…with little cubicles, which plan gives each artist a chance to appear to the best advantage.

The following participate: Ben Benn, Douglas Brown, Frieda Hauswirth Das, William de Leftwich Dodge, Raphael Doktor, Paula Eliasoph, Yun Gee, Kai Gotzsche, Stefan Hirsch, George Laszlo, Joseph Lomoff, Hanz Meyer, Ann Neagoe, Agnes Pelton, Princess Paule de Ruess, Olive Rush, Miklos Suba and Irene Weir.

The New York Times
June 13, 1931
Brooklyn Exhibits Art.
Notables Attend Opening of Display at Museum.
...Among the exhibitors present were: Yun Gee, Kai Gotzsche, Hanz Meyer, Aaron J. Goodelman, Minna R. Harkavy, Jane Kende Rakhit, Joseph Teichner and Leo Ziemssen Moll.

Brooklyn Eagle
(New York)
June 13, 1931
…Among the paintings, the pictures by Frieda Hauswirth Das, the Hindu artist, and Yun Gee, the Chinese representative, attracted the most attention.

Brooklyn Eagle
June 22, 1931
















The New York Times

June 14, 1931
Brooklyn Museum Annual Summer Show
…There are nine paintings by the young Chinese artist, Yun Gee.

The New York Times
September 24, 1931
...Yun Gee held his first New York one-man show last season. Fifteen of his paintings were included in the Summer show at the Brooklyn Museum, and he is to be represented in the self-portrait exhibition held by the College Art Association in its headquarters in West Fifty-eighth Street, opening next Monday.

Brooklyn Eagle
December 3, 1942








The New York Times
September 18, 1943
A concert of Chinese music will be presented tomorrow at 3:30 at the Brooklyn Museum by the Chinese People's Chorus, under Liu Liang-mo, and Yun Gee, singer and instrumentalist.


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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....