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Dong Kingman is a Chinese American Artist, born on the West Coast, San
Fran to be exact. His parents brought him back to Hong Kong where he
grew up. He came back to the States, California, as a young man and
struggled a bit.
He soon became known as an interesting watercolorist, a talent he
shared with his mother. He has a very inventive approach to imagery
often adding magical strange creatures to city scapes. He is a
wonderful

designer with a strong sense of pattern. Studied Art both here and in
Hong Kong and made a blend of east and west in his paintings.
Asian Artists have a long and distinctive history in Watercolor
Painting. They
have an advantage in brush work, learning to write with a
brush at a young age. Gestural marks, the back bone of watercolor, come

naturally to them because of this early training.
Asian Art is one of the pillars of modern Painting. Japanese wood
blocks helped
reinvigorate European painting in the 19th century. The
flatness of their work, their love of two dimensional shapes and
decorative patterns have had a immeasurable impact on the western mind.

Dong used this Asian advantage well in painting watercolor.
I would say he remains a western artist in his individual approach to
his subject matter. His use of space is never as
flat as classical Asian watercolor , or as idealized. Dong is inventive

where his eastern brothers are immersed in
conventions.
Take a look
Written By Staats
A Woodstock School of Art View
on a modern Watercolor Master

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http://borworld.usbr.gov/art/dkingman.htm
Dong Kingman
Dong Kingman was born in Oakland, CA in 1911 and lived in San
Francisco.

He studied art at the Long Non School in Hong Kong and the Fox-Morgan
School in Oakland. He was a member of the San Francisco Art
Association,

the Bay Region Art Association, and the California Watercolor Society.
His works recieved awards from the San Francisco Watercolor Exhibition
for the San Francisco Art Association in 1936, and the Oakland Art
Gallery in 1937. His works are displayed at the San Francisco Museum of

Art, the Museum of Modern Art and Mills Collage in Oakland. Kingman was

an art instructor at the Sacramento Art Center.


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