LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

84.25 in. (214.00 cm.) (height) by 48.03 in. (122.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in Pinyin; labels Of Guggenheim Museum, New York, De Young Museum, San Francisco, and Brooklyn Museum affixed to the reverse

Exhibited:

New York, Museum of Modern Art, . Murals by American Painters and Photographers , 3 - 31 May 1932. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, . Murals by American Painters and Photographers , 8 - 28 October 1932. Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Institute, . Murals by American Painters and Photographers , 1 - 30 November 1932. Dallas, Dallas Art Association, . Murals by American Painters and Photographers , 1 - 31 January 1933. San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, . Murals by American Painters and Photographers , 14 February - 26 March 1933. Hagerstown, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, . Murals by American Painters and Photographers , 11 - 30 April 1933. Jersey City, The Jersey City Museum, . An exhibition of the Work of Yun Gee , 5 - 26 January 1948. New York, Gudenzi Galleria, . Oil Paintings by Yun Gee , 4 December 1962 - 30 January 1963. New York, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, . Yun Gee , 7 - 31 May 1968. Storrs, The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, . The Paintings of Yun Gee , 13 October - 18 November 1979. Greensboro, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina, . The Paintings of Yun Gee , 10 February - 9 March 1980. Oakland, The Oakland Museum, . The Paintings of Yun Gee , 18 March - 27 April 1980. Brunswick, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, . The Paintings of Yun Gee , 17 October - 23 November 1980. New York, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, . Yun Gee: Early Modernist Paintings 1926-1932 , 8 November - 10 December 1983. New York, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, . The Great East River Bridge , 1983. Taipei, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, . The Art of Yun Gee , 25 March - 14 June 1992. Guggenheim Museum, venue: Beijing, National Art Museum of China, . Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation , 9 February - 5 April 2007. Guggenheim Museum, venue: Shanghai, Shanghai Museum and Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, . Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation , 30 May - 30 June 2007. San Francisco, de Young Museum, . Asian/ America/ Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970 , 25 October 2008 - 18 January 2009. Athens, Georgia Museum of Art, . Icon of Modernism: Representing the Brooklyn Bridge, 1883-1950 , 17 September - 11 December 2016

Literature:

Murals by American Painters and Photographers , Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1932, p. 26. D. Stephen Pepper and John Ferren ed.,. Yun Gee , Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, 1968. Diane Cochrane, . Yun Gee: Forgotten Synchromist Painter , . American Artist , 1974, January Issue, p. 50. Joyce Brodsky ed.,. The Paintings of Yun Gee , The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1979, p. 33 . . The Art of Yun Gee , Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei,1992, p. 121. . Yun-Gee , Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, 1995, p. 11. Anthony W Lee ed., . Yun Gee: Poetry, Writings, Art, Memories , University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2003, p. 23. Richard Haw, . The Brooklyn Bridge: A Cultural History , Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2005, p. 85. Joyce Brodsky , . Experience of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan , University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2008, p. 35. . Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900 - 1970 , Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and University of California Press, California, 2008, p. 34 & 92. Richard Haw, . Art of the Brooklyn Bridge: A Visual History , Routledge, New York and UK, 2008, p. 154. Gu Yue,. World Famous Artists: Yungee Chu , Hebei Publishing Media Group, Beijing, 2014, p. 25

Provenance:

Collection of the artist's family