COLOR WOODCUT Signed ~ ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST ~ 1952 American LISTED ARTIST

Description: A very fine Mid-Century modern hand signed color woodcut by noted American abstract expressionist printmaker Seong Moy (1921-2013). An early example of Moy's work, this 1952 print is titled, "Homage to Leon Pei" and is printed on Japanese washi mulberry paper. Good sized, the image measures 11 5/8 × 16 inches, sheet size is approx. 15 7/8 x 19 3/4 inches. The lower margin is signed, dated, numbered and titled in pencil by the artist. The paper shows mild age toning at edges, a couple spots in the margins, and some typical rippling to the margins, otherwise in excellent condition and it will frame up beautifully. Another impression of this woodcut is in the permanent collection of the Yale University Art Gallery: https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/118949 Seong Moy (1921-2013) was an 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 joined other members of his family who had settled in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1934, Moy was introduced to art classes at the WPA 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 under Cameron Booth, and the WPA Graphic Workshop at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN. Advisors recognized his talent and permitted him to take more classes while maintaining a job. In 1941 he moved to New York City where he was awarded a scholarship to study at the Art Students League of New York and the Hoffman School of Art. This lasted until the fall of 1942, when he enlisted with the United States Army Air Forces, serving in the China-India-Burma Theater as an aerial reconnaissance photographer with the 14th Air Force, the "Flying Tigers". After the war Moy married and brought his wife Sui Yung to New York. He returned to the Art Students League on the G.I. Bill and re-established his relationship with Cameron Booth, who was now teaching in New York. Moy experimented with printmaking at the Atelier 17 and Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York. 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 Whitney Museum of American Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Vero Beach Museum of Art, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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Location: Spring Hill, Florida

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