The New York Sun
June 7, 1941
The New York Sun
June 12, 1942
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Thursday, January 30, 2014
Yun Gee and the WPA
The New York Times
May 10, 1941
A new class in landscape painting and composition, with Yun Gee, Chinese artist, as instructor, has recently opened at the Museum of the City of New York, where an exhibition of water-colors by artists of the New York City WPA Art Project is in progress through May 21. The classes are being held on Monday and Tuesday afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:30, under the direction of the Art Teacher Division of the New York City WPA Art Project.
(Tomorrow: Yun Gee at Montross Gallery 1941, 1942)
May 10, 1941
A new class in landscape painting and composition, with Yun Gee, Chinese artist, as instructor, has recently opened at the Museum of the City of New York, where an exhibition of water-colors by artists of the New York City WPA Art Project is in progress through May 21. The classes are being held on Monday and Tuesday afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:30, under the direction of the Art Teacher Division of the New York City WPA Art Project.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Yun Gee in Paris, 1938
Corpus Christi Times
(Texas)
April 18, 1938
Salon des Independents
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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.
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.
(Tomorrow: Yun Gee in Paris, 1938)
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.
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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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
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Oakland Tribune
February 19, 1933
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Oakland Tribune
February 26, 1933
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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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Sunday, January 26, 2014
Yun Gee at the Museum of Modern Art
The New York Times
April 24, 1932
Exhibition of Murals to Open New Museum
The names of forty-nine American painters and photographers who have sent murals to be shown in an exhibition which will open the new quarters of the Museum of Modern Art at 11 West Fifty-third Street have just been made public. The mural exhibition and the museum will be open to the public Wednesday, May 4.
...The exhibitors include: ...Yun Gee...
Museum of Modern Art
Murals by American Painters and Photographers
Exhibition catalog and press releases
The New York Times
May 3, 1932
The Museum of Modern Art Gives Private Showing Today of Murals by American Painters.
...The artists who arrive within hailing distance of mural probity, or who achieve results of genuine consequence, are Reginald Marsh, George Biddle, Yun Gee, Thomas LaFarge, Edward Biberman, James E. Davis, Philip Evergood (although his Easter egg colors are not very reassuring), Kimon Nicolaides and Henry Varnum Poor....
...One admires...Yun Gee’s “Wheels: Industrial New York” for their charming spirit of fantasy…
The New York Times
May 8, 1932
Exhibition of Murals Proves How Much Our Painters Have Yet to Learn
...It will not be possible today to take up in detail the mural problems presented by this exhibition for public appraisal. The subject invites considerable future discussion. But one is unwilling to end this installment of comment on a vital theme without a reiterated word or praise for the artists who here demonstrate either positive mural accomplishment or the possession of unmistakable gifts in that direction. Reginald Marsh, George Biddle, James E. Davis, Thomas La Farge, Kimon Nicolaides, Yun Gee, Henry Varnum Poor, Edward Biberman and Philip Evergood have already been suggested as candidates.…
The New York Times
May 22, 1932
...In the realm of paint much yet remains to be discussed. Careful reexamination of the murals on the second and fourth floors of the museum bolsters certain previously arrived at favorable evaluations, accentuates uneasy doubts, intensifies the prevailing mood of dismay and withal leaves me prepared to assert that six of the artists represented—George Biddle, Reginald Marsh, Henry Varnum Poor, James E. Davis, Kimon Nicolaides and Yun Gee—I would gladly, were they mine to distribute, entrust walls today.
…If Nicolaides’s grandly conceived “Merry-Go-Round” strikes one as possibly a shade too cool, there may be those who will object that Yun Gee’s gorgeous fugue on a similar theme is conceivably a shade too warm….At any rate each of these artists has substantially proved an aptitude for mural work, and among the remaining painters there are a few who need take only another turn or two before meriting walls.
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(Tomorrow: Yun Gee 1932–1933)
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
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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
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
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 at the Museum of Modern Art)
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