Yang Ling-fu explained

Yang Ling-fu
Native Name:楊令茀
Other Names:Edith Ling-fu Yang, Edith Young
Birth Date:December 16, 1889
Birth Place:Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
Death Date:September 4, 1978
Death Place:Carmel, California, US
Occupation:Artist, poet, curator, educator

Yang Ling-fu (December 16, 1889 – September 4, 1978) was a Chinese artist.

Early life and education

Yang was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, the daughter of Yang Zhongji,[1] a government official and diplomat. Her older brother,, was a poet, editor, government official, and industrialist.

Yang won a scholarship to study art in Philadelphia in 1924;[2] she returned to Philadelphia in 1926,[3] in connection with the Philadelphia Exposition of 1926.[4] [5] She also studied and taught in Peking. As a young artist she won medals from presidents Yuan Shikai and Xu Shichang.[6]

Career

Yang was commissioned to make life-sized portraits of Manchu emperors and empresses for the Palace Museum of Mukden in the 1920s. She worked as a curator[7] and was president of the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts.[4] She also wrote novels, poetry, and a book on Chinese cookery.[6] [8] [9]

Yang moved to the United States before World War II. In 1936,[10] she presented an exhibit of Chinese art at the Canadian Jubilee Exposition in Vancouver.[4] [11] She lectured and exhibited her watercolor paintings in California.[2] [12] [13] She taught language, art, and cooking classes in various settings, including at the University of California, Stanford University[14] [15] and the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio in Monterey.[16] She created a set of handmade dolls to illustrate her lectures on Chinese art,[4] and sometimes demonstrated finger painting[17] [18] played a flute,[19] or wore Chinese gowns at her lecture appearances.[20] She also made fundraising appeals for Chinese war relief and refugees.[21] [22] As a poet, she was associated with Poets of the Pacific, a multi-ethnic, multi-national group with an anti-modernist literary emphasis.[23]

Personal life

Yang wrote a memoir, Sketch of Players, in the 1970s, including her oft-told anecdote about sending a pacifist poem to Adolf Hitler.[24] She died in Carmel, California, in 1978.[16]

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Notes and References

  1. News: 1937-07-04. 13 Water Colorists Hold Exhibition at Oakland Gallery. 36. Oakland Tribune. 2021-11-18. Newspapers.com.
  2. News: 1945-02-03. Renowned Artist to Show Her Chinese Paintings at Junior College Art Gallery. 3. The Californian. 2021-11-18. Newspapers.com.
  3. News: 1926-10-27. Chinese Artist Here from East. 8. Times Colonist. 2021-11-18. Newspapers.com.
  4. News: 1937-06-30. Lecturer to Tell Story of China with Doll Exhibit. 7. Oakland Tribune. 2021-11-18. Newspapers.com.
  5. News: 1926-10-30. Chinese Poet Visits City on Way to Sesqui. 26. Star Tribune. 2021-11-18. Newspapers.com.
  6. Book: Who's who in China; biographies of Chinese leaders. 1936. Shanghai China Weekly Review. 272. Internet Archive.
  7. News: Billheimer. Ruth. 1937-03-21. Noted Chinese Artist Found in Kitchen Making Pancakes. 17. The Pasadena Post. 2021-11-18. Newspapers.com.
  8. Book: Yang, Ling-Fu. Mei Shu Shih Pʻu. 1939. Yang Ling-Fu. en.
  9. Book: Yang, Ling-Fu. Painting and poetry of Yang Ling Fo. 1989. zh.
  10. News: 1936-07-22. Carnival Chinese. 2. The Vancouver Sun. 2021-11-18. Newspapers.com.
  11. News: 1939-04-23. Chinese Art Authority Coming Here. 49. Oakland Tribune. 2021-11-18. Newspapers.com.
  12. News: 1945-02-09. Ling-fu Yang Ends Talk on China with Finger Painting of Local Plum Blossoms. 9. The Californian. 2021-11-18. Newspapers.com.
  13. News: 1952-05-29. Gima Shows Work of Two Visitors. 17. Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 2021-11-18. Newspapers.com.
  14. News: 1943-09-23. Stanford Teaches Art of Chinese Cooking. 21. The Sacramento Bee. 2021-11-18. Newspapers.com.
  15. News: October 12, 1943. Cooking Class to Continue. 6. Stanford Daily. November 18, 2021. NewspaperArchive.com.
  16. Web site: Ling-Fu Yang - Biography. 2021-11-18. askART.
  17. News: 1949-09-08. Chinese Artist Gives Demonstration of Finger Painting. 6. The Modesto Bee. 2021-11-18. Newspapers.com.
  18. News: 1937-11-28. Chinese Art Lecture at City Club; Yang Ling-Fu will Show Paintings at Relief Program. 26. Oakland Tribune. 2021-11-18. Newspapers.com.
  19. News: 1937-04-26. Chinese Princess Praises Children. 7. The Pasadena Post. 2021-11-18. Newspapers.com.
  20. News: 1944-03-22. Chinese Artist Speaks to Soroptimist Club. 9. The Modesto Bee. 2021-11-18. Newspapers.com.
  21. News: 1941-05-21. Demonstrations of Paintings Will Mark Art Display Here. 4. The Modesto Bee. 2021-11-18. Newspapers.com.
  22. News: 1937-10-13. Chinese Art Exhibit to Benefit Refugees. 4. Oakland Tribune. 2021-11-18. Newspapers.com.
  23. Book: Filreis, Alan. Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960. 2012-09-01. UNC Press Books. 978-1-4696-0663-7. 202. en.
  24. News: May 16, 1974. Carmel Closeup: Ling-fu Yang; An Inside Glimpse of Old China. 17. Carmel Pine Cone. November 18, 2021. Internet Archive.

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