Exhibition - People Prints And Politics - China 1920-1980

Peking State Art School in 1948 and graduated from the Department of Paintings at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1952. He was the editor at the People’s Art Publishing House from 1952 to 1958, and he served in the Research Office of the Ministry of Culture from 1958 to 1960. For the next 20 years, Professor Yong was an instructor at the Department of Woodcuts at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. From 1980 to 1986, he served as Dean of the Department of Folk Art. The China Art Gallery held an exhibition of his work in 1982. He has lectured and held exhibitions in the United States and Korea, and had a 50-year retrospective exhibition in China in 2006. His publications include Selected Woodcuts of Xian Rang Yong, Fourteen Trips along the Yellow River—Observations on Folk Art, Chinese Folk Art, Selected Works of Chinese Folk Modern Painting, Collected Works of Xian Rang Yong, and Essays on Art.

Members should watch the mail for their invitations to the members’ preview reception on March 28, and to the special Klee-Wyk–supported opening reception for member-families on March 30.

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