Tyrus Wong (October 25, 1910 - December 30, 2016) is a Chinese-born American artist. He is a painter, animator, calligrapher, mural craftsman, ceramic maker, lithographer, and kite, as well as a storyboard designer and artist. One of the most influential and famous Asian-American artists of the 20th century, Wong is also a film production illustrator, working for Disney and Warner Brothers. He is a muralist for Works Progress Administration (WPA), also a Hallmark greeting card artist. In particular, he was the principal production illustrator of the Disney movie 1942 Bambi, taking inspiration from the Song Dynasty art. She also serves in the art department of many films, either as a set designer or a storyboard artist, such as Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Walk the World in Eighty Days (1956) Rio Bravo (1959), The Music Man (1962), PT 109 (1963), The Great Race (1962), Green Beret (1968), and The Wild Bunch (1969), among others.
Wong retired from the film industry in the late 1960s, but continued his work as an artist, spending most of his time designing kites. He also continued to paint, sketch, and design ceramics until the 90s. She is the subject of the documentary 2015, Tyrus , by director Pamela Tom. Wong died on December 30, 2016, at the age of 106.
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Wong was born
While attending Benjamin Franklin Junior in Pasadena, Wong's teachers took notice of his artistic abilities and he received a summer scholarship at the Otis Institute of Art. Wong decides to leave junior high school to get a full-time scholarship in Otis. Wong's father survived a more modest income, and Wong worked as a janitor at Otis. He walked for miles to attend classes. He graduated from Otis in the 1930s and started working in Hollywood.
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Careers
Wong's career ranges from working as a Hallmark greeting card designer, to becoming a Warner Bros. film production illustrator. (1942-1968), including drawing set designs and storyboards for several films, and inspirational sketch artists (1938-1941) for Disney.
It was the fertile pastel that inspired Bambi (1942), where he was the main artist of the project. His background painting for Bambi was inspired by Song dynasty classical Chinese painting. Although credited as one of the few background illustrators, his full contribution to the film has been unknown for decades.
Shortly after completing Bambi , Wong was fired from the Disney studio as a consequence of the Disney animator's strike. After leaving Disney, Wong worked at Warner Brothers Studios for 26 years as a production illustrator.
Then, he designed the popular greeting cards for Hallmark Cards. After retiring from film work in 1968, Wong changed his skills to make colorful kites (usually animals such as pandas, goldfish, or centipedes). He spent his Saturday flying his works on the beach just north of Santa Monica Pier.
Some of his famous paintings include Portrait (late 1920s), Fire (1939), Lying Nude (1940s), > East (1984) and West (1984). He told the interviewer that he was "a lucky artist". Wong is featured in the documentary film Mark Wexler 2009 How to Live Forever , where he discusses his everyday lifestyle and his views on mortality, and in the Pamela Tom 2015 documentary Tyrus .
Awards
In 2001, Wong was awarded the Historical Discovery (art) Award by the Chinese American Museum and was named the Disney Legend.
In 2015, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the San Diego Asian Film Festival.
Exhibition
The first single exhibition of Wong's art, "Mid-Century Mandarin: The Clay Canvasses of Tyrus Wong," curated by Bill Stern, is organized by the Museum of California Design. It focused on painting on tableware for Winfield China from Pasadena, California, in the 1940s and 50s, and presented at CAFAM in Los Angeles, July 14 to October 31, 2004.
The Tyrus Wong exhibit: A Retrospective at the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles, California showcased his work in October-December 2004. According to the museum:
This exhibition showcases the works of Tyrus Wong, who at the age of 93, was one of the earliest and most influential Chinese American artists in the United States. In his long and pioneering career as a local artist, Wong is an experienced painter, mural maker, ceramist, lithograph, designer, and kite maker. The exhibit also features the imaginative kite Wong, which he has built and flew over the past 30 years. Taken from public and private collections, some of the sections chosen for this exhibition have not been publicly displayed since the 1930s.
In 2007, Wong was one of three illustrators featured in William B. Mayor, Harold Michelson and Tyrus Wong, an exhibition at the Great Motion Picture and Lobby Art Academy Science. Gallery in Beverly Hills.
Wong's work is featured in "Now Dig: 1960-1980 Art and Black Los Angeles" exhibition at the Hammer Museum, October 2011-January 2012.
His work is also included in the Bulletin: US Artists Working in Los Angeles exhibited at East Los Angeles County's East Los Angeles Art Museum, January-May 2012.
From August 2013 to February 2014, Wong's work is on display at The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, California in a retrospective career entitled: Water to Paper, Painting to the Sky: Art of Tyrus Wong . A hardcover book was published by the Walt Disney Family Foundation Press in conjunction with the exhibition.
In 2015, Wong is featured in a retrospective of eight decades of career, Water to Paper, Painting to the Sky: Art of Tyrus Wong, at the Chinese Museum of America in Manhattan, New York City.
Personal life
Wong met with Ruth Ng Kim (???), a second generation Chinese descendant of a farmer's family in Bakersfield, California, at Dragon's Den Restaurant in Los Angeles Chinatown, CA, where he was a waitress. They were married on June 27, 1937, in Bakersfield, CA.
He works as a secretary for Y.C. Hong, the first immigration lawyer from America, and later became a housewife after the birth of their children. The couple have three daughters: Kay (born 1938), Tai-Ling (born 1943), and Kim (born 1949) and two grandchildren, Kevin Fong and Jason Fong. Wong's wife, Ruth Kim Wong, died on January 12, 1995. She is 85 years old. Wong died on December 30, 2016 at the age of 106 years.
Legacy
In 2015, filmmaker Pamela Tom wrote and directed a film about Tyrus Wong's life, titled Tyrus . The film is produced by Gwen Wynne, Tamara Khalaf and Pamela Tom. The film eventually won the Audiences Awards at the 2016 Asian Film Festival Boston 2016 and the 2015 Hawaii International Film Festival and the 2015 San Diego Film Festival 2015. The film has been broadcast nationwide on the PBS American Masters on September 8, 2017.
Artwork
Painting
- Deer on the Cliff (1960s)
- The Cove, 1960s
Ceramics
- Winfield Pottery - Plat Tyrus Wong Iris.
- Winfield Pottery - Tyrus Wong California Pink HP Flowers.
Moviesography
- Bambi (1942) - Department of Animation. Animated background.
- Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) - 1. Department of the Arts. Assistant Director of Art. 2. Miscellaneous Crew. Technical advisor.
- Way of Life Forever (2009) - Documentary on the secrets of longevity. Own.
- When the World Breaks (2010) - Documentary. Own.
- Angels Island Profile: Tyrus Wong (2011) - Documentary about him at the age of 100 years.
- Tyrus (2015) - Documentary about itself.
See also
- List of centenarians (artists)
References
External links
- Tyrus Wong's Profile by Rosalind Chang. Foundation of Anglican Island Immigration Station.
- "Tyrus Wong on IMDB" . Retrieved September 11 2017 Ã, Tyrus Wong on IMDB
- "Tyrus Wong, Disney Legend". Disney Insider . Disney. Archived from original on May 15, 2012
- Tyrus the Movie Documentary life and career of Tyrus Wong.
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