Tyrus Wong - Wikipedia
WEBIn his long, pioneering career as a local artist, Wong is a seasoned painter, muralist, ceramicist, lithographer, designer, and kite maker. The exhibit also featured Wong's imaginative kites, which he has been building and flying for the past 30 years.
How Tyrus Wong Spent 106 Years Making the World More Beautiful
WEBIn his long and varied career, Wong developed a pioneering style, achieving brilliance as a painter, film illustrator, muralist, ceramicist, lithographer—even as a kite maker...
How Tyrus Wong’s Christmas Cards Captivated the American Public
WEBIn a glass-fronted, sunlit studio on a wooded ravine in the San Fernando Valley, Tyrus Wong spent summer weekends painting Christmas imagery with a bamboo paintbrush while listening to Harry...
Illustrating the Holidays: Christmas Cards by Tyrus Wong
WEBDec 21, 2023 · Wong's works blended his artistic and cultural backgrounds — his love of art (especially Asian art) and his life and education in America — creating a design mix that resonated with mid-20th-century Americans' growing interest in Asian aesthetics.
Tyrus Wong - Museum of Chinese in America
WEBTyrus Wong (1910-2016) was one of the most influential Asian American artists of the 20th century, most celebrated for his work as lead production designer in Disney’s Bambi. He was born in Guangdong during the era of Chinese Exclusion.
Tyrus Wong - Hammer Museum
WEBOften hailed for his watercolors and ceramics, Wong was influenced in part by his Otis mentor Stanton Macdonald-Wright, who encouraged his student's combination of traditional Chinese brushwork, taken from both calligraphy and landscape painting, and natural subjects in movement.
Tyrus Wong: The Man Who Helped Create a Classic Animated Film
WEBWong's delicate watercolors, using traditional Chinese brushwork established him as one of the most important Asian-American artists of the 20th century, as well as influencing many fellow...
How ‘Bambi’ Got Its Look From 1,000-Year-Old Chinese Art
WEBJan 5, 2017 · The Chinese-American artist Tyrus Wong blended 1000-year-old painting techniques with his own sensibility to create the film's signature style.
Commercial Design and Midcentury Asian American Art: The
WEBTyrus Wong, “The Shepherd,” California Artists greeting card, 1964. Tyrus Wong Estate, Los Angeles; Photography by Pamela Tom. This card sold more than one million copies. This essay explores Wong’s holiday cards as one example of precursors to Asian American art in the period prior to the 1970s.
The Chinese 'Paper Son' Who Inspired The Look Of Disney's 'Bambi' - NPR
WEBMar 28, 2015 · Tyrus Wong's expressive paintings caught Walt Disney's eye and became the visual guide for Bambi. Born in China, Wong — now 104 — used forged papers to enter the U.S. under the Chinese ...
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