Homage to Lieou Pei
Woodcut printed in colors, 1952, edition 200 11 5/8 x 16 in. Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine, luminous impression printed on thin Japanese paper. The margins are apparently full and the condition is fine. (There are narrow, old hinges showing on the four sides at center.) A painter and graphic artist, Seong Moy was born in Canton, China, and came to the United States in 1931. He studied painting at the Saint Paul School of Minneapolis and then went to New York, where he studied with Vaclav Vytlacil and Hans Hofmann in 1941 and 1942. His paintings have been included in national and international group exhibitions, beginning with the Metropolitan Museum of Art show American Painting 1950. As a printmaker, he received a fellowship to Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 in 1948 and was awarded a Guggenheim grant in 1955 for his color woodcut illustrations of the poems of Li Po (Chinese, 8th century). His prints have been widely exhibited and reproduced in magazines. Moy has taught at many colleges and universities, and also headed the Seong Moy School of Painting and Graphics in Provincetown, Massachusetts, during the summer. This work was published by the International Graphic Arts Society. The spelling of Lieou is sometimes interpreted as simply Leon or Leoi.
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