Collection Information
Size: 22 Items
Summary: Photographs of Kingman, his family, and his work; and a New Yorker article about him.
Kingman, Dong, 1911-2000
Painter, Illustrator
Size: 22 Items
Summary: Photographs of Kingman, his family, and his work; and a New Yorker article about him.
Dong Kingman (1911-2000) was a painter and illustrator from San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. Worked for the Works Progress Administration.
The lender, Lewis Ferbrache, collected papers for AAA from artists and administrators of the various government funded art programs of the Depression. It was part of a larger nation-wide, collecting project, "New Deal and the Arts."
Dong Kinman papers also at Syracuse University.
35mm microfilm reel NDA 15 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Dong Kingman papers, 1938-1942. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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