Famous Artists

Dong Kingman - A Chinese American watercolor artist "Dong Kingman is recognized as one of the premier watercolor masters in America and a pioneer of the California school of painting. Born in Oakland, California as Dong Moy Shu, Mr. Kingman returned to Hong Kong with his family at age five. There, at the Lingnan School, he studied painting with a Paris-trained teacher. When he returned to Oakland in 1929, he already excelled at calligraphy and watercolor painting; however, he enrolled at a local art school to further his studies. A solo exhibition in San Francisco in 1936 elevated him to...