Seong Moy
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1921 – 2013
Who was Seong Moy?
Seong Moy was a Chinese-born American painter and printmaker. Moy was born in a small town outside of Canton, China; he emigrated to the United States at the age of 10 in 1931, and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota. During this time, Moy attended school during the day, and trained in his uncle's restaurant as an assistant chef when not in school. In 1934, Moy was introduced to art classes at the Federal Art Project School through a friend. For the next few years, Moy studied art first at the Federal Art Project, and later at the St. Paul School of Art and the WPA Graphic Workshop at the Walker Art Center.
In 1941 he moved to New York City to study at the Art Students League and the Hoffman School of Art. This lasted until the fall of 1942, when he enlisted with the U.S. Army Air Force, serving in the China-India-Burma Theater as an aerial reconnaissance photographer.
In 1955 Moy won a Guggenheim Fellowship. His woodcuts from this time are notable in their use of subject matter from Chinese classics, combined with the formal techniques of Abstract Expressionism.
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- Born
- Apr 12, 1921
Guangzhou - Nationality
- United States of America
- China
- Education
- Art Students League of New York
Fine art
(1941 - 1942)
- Art Students League of New York
- Lived in
- New York
(1941 - 2013/06/09)
- New York
- Died
- Jun 9, 2013
New York
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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