Tranquility 1980
Seong Moy
Limited Edition Print : Five Color Woodcut on Wove Paper
Size : 30x22 in | 76x56 cm
Framed : 34x26 in | 86x66 cm
Edition : From the Edition of 100
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Year1980
Hand SignedLower Right
Condition Excellent
Framed with GlassSilver Metal Frame
Purchased fromOther 1980
Provenance / HistoryFirst owner received this print from campaign contribution, I am the second owner.
Story / Additional InfoIn 1980 Several well known artists donated limited edition prints to support the Presidential campaign of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Seong Moy's "Tranquility" was among these prints.
Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage
LID147007
Seong Moy
Art Brokerage: Seong Moy Chinese-American Artist: b. 1921-2013. Seong Moy (born April 12, 1921 - June 9, 2013) was a Chinese-born American painter and printmaker. Moy was born in a small town outside of Canton, China; he emigrated to the United States at the age of 10 in 1931, and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota. During this time, Moy attended school during the day, and trained in his uncle's restaurant as an assistant chef when not in school. In 1934, Moy was introduced to art classes at the Federal Art Project School through a friend. For the next few years, Moy studied art first at the Federal Art Project, and later at the St. Paul School of Art and the WPA Graphic Workshop at the Walker Art Center. In 1941 he moved to New York City to study at the Art Students League and the Hoffman School of Art. This lasted until the fall of 1942, when he enlisted with the U.S. Army Air Force, serving in the China-India-Burma Theater as an aerial reconnaissance photographer. In 1955 Moy won a Guggenheim Fellowship. His woodcuts from this time are notable in their use of subject matter from Chinese classics, combined with the formal techniques of Abstract Expressionism. For example, his woodcut Inscription of T'Chao Pae #II (1952) explores the potential of archaic Chinese calligraphy, illustrating the artist's aim, in his own words, to "recreate in the abstract idiom of contemporary time some of the ideas of ancient Chinese art forms." His work can be found in the permanent collections of a number of museums in the United States, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian.