Yang Ling-fu
Yang Ling-fu | |
|---|---|
| 楊令茀 | |
 Yang Ling-fu from a 1936 directory | |
| Born | December 16, 1889 Wuxi, Jiangsu, China |
| Died | September 4, 1978 Carmel, California, US |
| Other names | Edith Ling-fu Yang, Edith Young |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, poet, curator, educator |
Yang Ling-fu (Chinese: 楊令茀, December 16, 1889 – September 4, 1978) was a Chinese artist.
Early life and education[edit]
Yang was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, the daughter of Yang Zhongji,[1] a government official and diplomat. Her older brother, Yang Shounan, 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[edit]
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[edit]
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]
References[edit]
- ^ "13 Water Colorists Hold Exhibition at Oakland Gallery". Oakland Tribune. 1937-07-04. p. 36. Retrieved 2021-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Renowned Artist to Show Her Chinese Paintings at Junior College Art Gallery". The Californian. 1945-02-03. p. 3. Retrieved 2021-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Chinese Artist Here from East". Times Colonist. 1926-10-27. p. 8. Retrieved 2021-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d "Lecturer to Tell Story of China with Doll Exhibit". Oakland Tribune. 1937-06-30. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Chinese Poet Visits City on Way to Sesqui". Star Tribune. 1926-10-30. p. 26. Retrieved 2021-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Who's who in China; biographies of Chinese leaders. Shanghai China Weekly Review. 1936. p. 272 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Billheimer, Ruth (1937-03-21). "Noted Chinese Artist Found in Kitchen Making Pancakes". The Pasadena Post. p. 17. Retrieved 2021-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Yang, Ling-Fu (1939). Mei Shu Shih Pʻu. Yang Ling-Fu.
- ^ Yang, Ling-Fu (1989). Painting and poetry of Yang Ling Fo (in Chinese).
- ^ "Carnival Chinese". The Vancouver Sun. 1936-07-22. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Chinese Art Authority Coming Here". Oakland Tribune. 1939-04-23. p. 49. Retrieved 2021-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Ling-fu Yang Ends Talk on China with Finger Painting of Local Plum Blossoms". The Californian. 1945-02-09. p. 9. Retrieved 2021-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Gima Shows Work of Two Visitors". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 1952-05-29. p. 17. Retrieved 2021-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Stanford Teaches Art of Chinese Cooking". The Sacramento Bee. 1943-09-23. p. 21. Retrieved 2021-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Cooking Class to Continue". Stanford Daily. October 12, 1943. p. 6. Retrieved November 18, 2021 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
- ^ a b "Ling-Fu Yang - Biography". askART. Retrieved 2021-11-18.
- ^ "Chinese Artist Gives Demonstration of Finger Painting". The Modesto Bee. 1949-09-08. p. 6. Retrieved 2021-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Chinese Art Lecture at City Club; Yang Ling-Fu will Show Paintings at Relief Program". Oakland Tribune. 1937-11-28. p. 26. Retrieved 2021-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Chinese Princess Praises Children". The Pasadena Post. 1937-04-26. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Chinese Artist Speaks to Soroptimist Club". The Modesto Bee. 1944-03-22. p. 9. Retrieved 2021-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Demonstrations of Paintings Will Mark Art Display Here". The Modesto Bee. 1941-05-21. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Chinese Art Exhibit to Benefit Refugees". Oakland Tribune. 1937-10-13. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Filreis, Alan (2012-09-01). Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960. UNC Press Books. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-4696-0663-7.
- ^ "Carmel Closeup: Ling-fu Yang; An Inside Glimpse of Old China". Carmel Pine Cone. May 16, 1974. p. 17. Retrieved November 18, 2021 – via Internet Archive.
External links[edit]
- A letter from Ling-fu Yang to Eleanor Roosevelt, seeking help with immigration matters; in the FDR Library collection at Marist College.