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Dong Kingman (Dong Moy Shu), American, 1911 - 2000

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1948

Watercolor over graphite indications on heavy wove paper

Sheet: 22 5/8 × 15 3/16 in. (57.5 × 38.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund

W.951.73

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Watercolor

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, lower right: Kingman '48

Course History

SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II,III, Jack Wilson, Fall 2022

ASCL 7.03,Asian-American Art and Architecture, Sujin Eom, Winter 2023

Asian Society, Culture, & Language 7.03, Asian-American Art and Architecture, Sujin Eom, Winter 2023

Exhibition History

Coastline to Skyline: The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, 1930-1960, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 11, 2008-January 4, 2009.

Don Kingman, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 8-31, 1951.

Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005.

Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas, Spring-July, 1968.

Publication History

Dong Kingman, [Dong Kingman's Watercolors. Chinese] Tseng Ching-wen chu ; Yu Fei-fei i. T'ai-pei shih: I shu chia ch'u pan she, min kuo 83 [1994] 159 p., ill. [ Artist Magazine: Taipei, Taiwan]

Midtown Galleries, New York, New York, September, 1951.

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 239.

Provenance

The artist; sold to present collection, 1951.

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