September 4, 2013

Collection Name: Drachen Foundation Collection

Collection Number: 3005

Post Type: Book

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Artist or Author: Michael Labrie

Creation Year: 2013

Length: 12 1/4 inches

Height: 9 3/4 inches

Width: 7/8 inches

Summay:

A special exhibition tribute to life, work and passion of Chinese American artist Tyrus Wong, born in 1910, now 103 years old. A resident of Santa Monica, California, this catalog is published in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition, Water to Paper, Paint to Sky: The Art of Tyrus Wong, August 15, 2013-February 3, 2014, at the Walt Disney Family Museum, San Francisco, California.
Front cover: Boy Flying Kites, c.1968, opaque watercolor on paperboard/ 14 x 40 1/2 inches.

Back cover: Tyrus Wong at his home in Sunland, California, 2004, photograph by Peter Brenner. Mural by Tyrus Wong, c. 1955

Geographic: Peoples Republic of China, United States

Kite Type: Figure

Materials: Bamboo, Paper

Significance: Art, Cultural

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