Yang Ling-fu

Yang Ling-fu
楊令茀
Yang Ling-fu from a 1936 directory
Born(1889-12-16)December 16, 1889
Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
DiedSeptember 4, 1978(1978-09-04) (aged 88)
Carmel, California, US
Other namesEdith Ling-fu Yang, Edith Young
OccupationsArtist, poet, curator, educator

Yang Ling-fu (Chinese: 楊令茀, December 16, 1889 – September 4, 1978) was a Chinese artist.

Early life and education

Yang was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, the daughter of Yang Zhongji,[1] a government official and diplomat. Her older brother, Yang Shounan, was a poet, editor, government official, and industrialist.

Yang won a scholarship to study art in Philadelphia in 1924;[2] she returned to Philadelphia in 1926,[3] in connection with the Philadelphia Exposition of 1926.[4][5] She also studied and taught in Peking. As a young artist she won medals from presidents Yuan Shikai and Xu Shichang.[6]

Career

Yang was commissioned to make life-sized portraits of Manchu emperors and empresses for the Palace Museum of Mukden in the 1920s. She worked as a curator[7] and was president of the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts.[4] She also wrote novels, poetry, and a book on Chinese cookery.[6][8][9]

Yang moved to the United States before World War II. In 1936,[10] she presented an exhibit of Chinese art at the Canadian Jubilee Exposition in Vancouver.[4][11] She lectured and exhibited her watercolor paintings in California.[2][12][13] She taught language, art, and cooking classes in various settings, including at the University of California, Stanford University[14][15] and the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio in Monterey.[16] She created a set of handmade dolls to illustrate her lectures on Chinese art,[4] and sometimes demonstrated finger painting[17][18] played a flute,[19] or wore Chinese gowns at her lecture appearances.[20] She also made fundraising appeals for Chinese war relief and refugees.[21][22] As a poet, she was associated with Poets of the Pacific, a multi-ethnic, multi-national group with an anti-modernist literary emphasis.[23]

Personal life

Yang wrote a memoir, Sketch of Players, in the 1970s, including her oft-told anecdote about sending a pacifist poem to Adolf Hitler.[24] She died in Carmel, California, in 1978.[16]

References

  1. ^ "13 Water Colorists Hold Exhibition at Oakland Gallery". Oakland Tribune. 4 July 1937. p. 36. Archived from the original on 8 July 2025. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b "Renowned Artist to Show Her Chinese Paintings at Junior College Art Gallery". The Californian. 3 February 1945. p. 3. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Chinese Artist Here from East: Miss Yang Ling Fu to Attend Philadelphia's Exposition; Will Display Work". Times Colonist. 27 October 1926. p. 8. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b c d "Lecturer to Tell Story of China with Doll Exhibit". Oakland Tribune. 30 June 1937. p. 7. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Chinese Poet Visits City on Way to Sesqui". Star Tribune. 30 October 1926. p. 26. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ a b Who's who in China; biographies of Chinese leaders (5th ed.). Shanghai China Weekly Review. 1936. pp. 272 – via Internet Archive.
  7. ^ Billheimer, Ruth (21 March 1937). "Noted Chinese Artist Found in Kitchen Making Pancakes". The Pasadena Post. p. 17. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Yang, Ling-Fu (1939). Mei Shu Shih Pʻu. Yang Ling-Fu. OCLC 1141443484 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Yang, Ling-Fu (1989). Painting and poetry of Yang Ling Fo (in Chinese). OCLC 1298151731.
  10. ^ "Carnival Chinese". Vancouver Sun. 22 July 1936. p. 2. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Chinese Art Authority Coming Here". Oakland Tribune. 23 April 1939. p. 49. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Ling-fu Yang Ends Talk on China with Finger Painting of Local Plum Blossoms". The Californian. 9 February 1945. p. 9. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Gima Shows Work of Two Visitors". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 29 May 1952. p. 17. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Stanford Teaches Art of Chinese Cooking". The Sacramento Bee. 23 September 1943. p. 21. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Cooking Class to Continue". The Stanford Daily. 12 October 1943. p. 6. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via NewspaperArchive.
  16. ^ a b "Ling-Fu Yang - Biography". askART. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  17. ^ "Chinese Artist Gives Demonstration of Finger Painting". The Modesto Bee. 8 September 1949. p. 6. Archived from the original on 8 July 2025. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Chinese Art Lecture at City Club; Yang Ling-Fu will Show Paintings at Relief Program". Oakland Tribune. 28 November 1937. p. 26. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "Chinese Princess Praises Children". The Pasadena Post. 26 April 1937. p. 7. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Chinese Artist Speaks to Soroptimist Club". The Modesto Bee. 22 March 1944. p. 9. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ "Demonstrations of Paintings Will Mark Art Display Here". The Modesto Bee. 21 May 1941. p. 4. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ "Chinese Art Exhibit to Benefit Refugees". Oakland Tribune. 13 October 1937. p. 4. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ Filreis, Alan (2012). Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960. University of North Carolina Press. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-4696-0663-7. OCLC 823382526. Retrieved 12 May 2026 – via Google Books.
  24. ^ Gorman, Tricia (16 May 1974). "Carmel Closeup: Ling-fu Yang; An Inside Glimpse of Old China". Carmel Pine Cone. p. 17. Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via Internet Archive.
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