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Vincent Price Art
Museum, East Los Angeles College
Founded in 1957, the Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM) is located
on the campus of East Los Angeles College (ELAC) and is the first
institutional art space to serve the East Los Angeles area.
Funding awarded for “'Round the Clock: Chinese American
Artists Working in Los Angeles,” an exhibition of the works
of Chinese American artists based in Los Angeles between 1945-1980.
The exhibition is part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time
initiative. Scheduled for January – April 2012.
"'Round
the Clock: Chinese American Artists Working in Los Angeles," will
present the work of George Chann, John Kwok, Jake Lee, Milton Quon,
and Tyrus Wong, contemporary Chinese American artists who employed
their artistic abilities in their professional lives while remaining
true to their own artistic pursuits in their personal lives. The
exhibition will feature 60–70 works by
these Los Angeles-based artists, including paintings, watercolors,
storyboard illustrations, animation cells, drawings, photographs,
film clips, and ephemera. "'Round the Clock" will consider
how these contemporary artists balanced their personal art-making
and their professional demands; how they achieved success on their
own terms in their commitment to making art in Los Angeles; and
the significance of their contributions to the region’s artistic
and cultural legacy.
John Kwok, Untitled, not dated,
gouache on paperboard, 40 x 30
inches.
Collection of The John Kwok Family.
Courtesy of Vincent
Price Art Museum.
Copyright John Kwok.
This untitled painting reflects
John Kwok's fondness for experimenting with abstract form and pattern,
and underscores the influence of Western modernism in his own artistic
practice.
John Kwok (b. 1920, Shanghai, China - d. 1983, Los Angeles,
CA) studied art at Sacramento Junior College, Sacramento, CA (1938-40)
and Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA (1940-2). He designed
window displays and signage for fine department stores, like I.
Magnin and Bullocks Wilshire, and spent the latter part of his
career as a freelance artist executing commissioned portraits,
many for community figures and the local chapter of Jack and Jill
of America. Nearly every year from 1947 until the year he died,
Kwok participated in multiple watercolor shows and competitions
around the country, winning prizes at the majority of these shows.
Tyrus Wong, Reclining Nude, 1940s, oil on canvas, 29 3/4 x 48 inches.
Collection of Leslee See Leong. Courtesy of Vincent Price Art Museum.
Copyright Tyrus Wong.
The rich, vibrant palette and seductive,
Asian-inspired style of Tyrus Wong's Reclining Nude is reminiscent
of Chinese painting tradition, modern California watercolor and
Stanton MacDonald-Wright's synchromism--all of which were important
in Wong's development as an artist.
Tyrus Wong was born in 1909
in Guangdong, China and lives in Sunland, California. He received
a scholarship to study at Otis Art Institute (1928-35) and went
on to work at Disney Studios on the 1942 film, Bambi. Wong then
went on to work at Warner Brothers Studios for more than two decades,
where he illustrated storyboards for dozens of films, including
The Wild Bunch, Rebel Without a Cause, Around the World in Eighty
Days, and other award-winning films. As a father of three, Wong
took private commissions and freelance assignments to augment his
income, such as designing Christmas cards for Duncan McIntosh,
California Artists, and Looart and dinnerware for Winfield Pottery.
Wong retired in 1970s and has been creating and flying his own
kites every month at Santa Monica Beach.
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