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Huang Yongyu 黃永玉

Huang_Yongyu_port (11K) Huang Yongyu was born in 1924 in Fenghuang, Hunan Province. He quite junior middle school at the end of his second year. At 16, he earned a living painting and engraving wood. He has worked in a porcelain factory, as a schoolteacher, as a newspaper editor, as a film screenwriter and as a professor at the fine arts academy.

He likes writing poems, essays, novels and screenplays. He has published picture albums, collections of poems and essays and albums of wood engravings. He has exhibited in China, Hong Kong, Australia, Germany and Italy

Huang Yongyu's lotus paintings show a vivid use of color combined with a free hand depiction of leaves and background.


huang_yongyu_lotus_sigseal (16K)
Signature/Seal
huang_yongyu_lotus_lg (45K)
Creator.Personal Name: 黃永玉.
Creator.Personal Name: Huang Yongyu.
Creator.Role: painter.
Title: [Untitled: lotuses]
Description: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; inscribed and signed by artist; one artist's seal.
Subject: Flowers.
Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese.
Type: Genre paintings--Chinese.
Type: Watercolors--Chinese.
Culture: Chinese.
Style.Period: Contemporary.
Technique: painting.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 21 x 37 in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.
huang_yong_yu_lotus_2_lg (47K)
Creator.Personal Name: 黃永玉.
Creator.Personal Name: Huang Yongyu.
Creator.Role: painter.
Title: [Untitled: lotuses]
Description: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; inscribed and signed by artist; one artist's seal.
Subject: Flowers.
Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese.
Type: Genre paintings--Chinese.
Type: Watercolors--Chinese.
Culture: Chinese.
Style.Period: Contemporary.
Technique: painting.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 21 x 37 in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.
Chinese Traditional Painting