Dora Fugh Lee
| Dora Fugh Lee | |
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| Born | August 16, 1929 Beijing, China |
| 🏳️ Nationality | United States |
| 💼 Occupation | Artist |
Dora Fugh Lee is a Chinese-American painter, illustrator, and sculptor born and classically trained in China and influenced by and immersed in European styles. Her fused, blended style has received recognition and visibility among notable art and cultural institutions in Asia and the United States [1].
Family Background
The Fu family's ancestors include the first empress of the Qianlong Emperor, Empress Xiaoxianchun, Grand Secretary Fuheng, and Prince Fuk’anggan of the Qing Dynasty. The spelling of their surname Fu was changed to "Fugh" by Dora Lee's father in the 1920s [2]. Dora Fugh Lee's name in Chinese is Fu Duoruo. She was born in 1929 in Beijing into the Manchu Fuca clan. Generations of high military officials, royalty, and artists are among Dora Lee's family lineage with bonds to both the East and West [3][4][5][6].
Early life
At age four, Dora Fu was singled out as a promising artist by her grandfather, Fu Ruiqing. He served as a national Senator in the late Qing dynasty and in the early Nationalist period of China's history. She was the only grandchild allowed to sit with him as he practiced calligraphy and painting. At age eleven, Fu became a student of Yan Shaoxing, a renowned master of figure painting. She studied Gongbi, a realistic portrait painting style. Dora Lee attended an all-girls Catholic school in Beijing and studied directly under Zhao Mengzhu, a master of modern Chinese fine brushwork flower-and-bird painting. He was a member of the Hu She Painting Association, known as the “Cradle of Modern Chinese Painting [7][8].
Career
In 1949, the newly married Mrs. Lee and her husband Richard, left China and resided in Tokyo, Japan, for a time where she became a student of Pu Ru, the foremost literati painter of modern China and cousin of Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China. After Dora Lee settled in Washington, DC, with her husband in 1957, she studied under the artist and sculptor Pietro Lazzari. In the 1980s, she taught traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy at the Smithsonian Institution and George Washington University [9].
Recognition and Legacy
Dora Lee earned over fifty awards and accolades in her career. Today, her works are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of Asian Art (formerly the Freer Sackler Gallery), the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the China Institute, the Pearl Buck Foundation, the National Cathedral, The Pen Arts Building and Art Museum, and the University of Virginia among other notable institutions[10][11][12].
In 2021, a first complete retrospective of her work was exhibited at the Chinese American Museum DC.[13]
References
- ↑ "Dora Lee's City Views - The Washington Post, Benjamin Forgey, 1983".
- ↑ "Chinese Culture and Art League".
- ↑ "Chinese Culture and Community Service Center Gallery(CCACC), Rockville, Maryland, Dora Fugh Lee Exhibit".
- ↑ “Dora Fugh Lee: A Lifetime of Art” exhibit program and artist biography. September 2021, Chinese American Museum Foundation
- ↑ "Dora Fugh Lee: A Lifetime of Art, Full catalog and biography, with forward, 2021, Pages 8-28" (PDF).
- ↑ "Interview with Handel Lee, Video, ETBTV, September 27, 2021".
- ↑ “A Lifetime of Art” complete catalog. 155 pages, Published by the Fugh Family. October 2021.
- ↑ Modern Chinese Artists, a biographical dictionary, Sullivan, Michael, University of California Press, 2006, p.39
- ↑ Exhibit Discussions, Dora Fugh Lee: A Lifetime of Art, Chinese American Museum DC, October 2022
- ↑ "Dora Fugh Lee | American Art Collaborative".
- ↑ "The Pen Arts Building and Art Museum". November 10, 2019.
- ↑ "Lee, Dora Fugh 1930- in Art & Artists Files in the Smithsonian Libraries' Collections".
- ↑ Chinese American Museum Special Exhibits, October 2021, https://www.chineseamericanmuseum.org/dorafughlee
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