Kingman, Dong, 1911-2000
Painter, Watercolorist, Illustrator
This site provides access to the papers of Dong Kingman in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2025 from 1 reel of microfilm, and total 55 images.
The digitization of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Information System (CIS) IRM Pool Fund
Size: 1 Microfilm reel
Summary: The papers of watercolorist and muralist Dong Kingman (1911-2000) date from 1938 to 1942. Found are records relating to Kingman's participation with the National Art Week, Works Progress Administration. Included is a The New Yorker article on Kingman; photographs of Kingman, his wife and family, and of works of art; and a letter concerning an exhibition.
Dong Kingman (1911-2000) was a Chinese American painter and illustrator based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California and New York City, New York. Kingman taught at Columbia University and Hunter College and 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." The papers were returned after filming.
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This site provides access to the papers of Dong Kingman in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2025 from 1 reel of microfilm, and total 55 images.
The digitization of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Information System (CIS) IRM Pool Fund
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