Philadelphia
Dong Kingman (Dong Moy Shu), American, 1911 - 2000
1948
Watercolor over graphite indications on heavy wove paper
Sheet: 22 5/8 × 15 3/16 in. (57.5 × 38.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
W.951.73
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right: Kingman '48
Course History
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II,III, Jack Wilson, Fall 2022
ASCL 7.03,Asian-American Art and Architecture, Sujin Eom, Winter 2023
Asian Society, Culture, & Language 7.03, Asian-American Art and Architecture, Sujin Eom, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
Coastline to Skyline: The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, 1930-1960, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 11, 2008-January 4, 2009.
Don Kingman, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 8-31, 1951.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005.
Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas, Spring-July, 1968.
Publication History
Dong Kingman, [Dong Kingman's Watercolors. Chinese] Tseng Ching-wen chu ; Yu Fei-fei i. T'ai-pei shih: I shu chia ch'u pan she, min kuo 83 [1994] 159 p., ill. [ Artist Magazine: Taipei, Taiwan]
Midtown Galleries, New York, New York, September, 1951.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 239.
Provenance
The artist; sold to present collection, 1951.
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