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Hung Liu

Chinese 20th-21st century painter and printmaker
(Changchun, Jilin Province, China, Feb. 17, 1948 – 8/21/2021)

Profile from National Museum of Women in the Arts: "Liu’s personal history dovetails with major changes in her native country. Born in Changchun, China, in 1948, Liu came of age under the communist regime of Mao Zedong. In her early 20s, Liu labored four years in rice and wheat fields for her agrarian re-education as part of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. During the 1970s, she completed her art and education degree and began a teaching career. Then, in 1984, Liu entered the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego, and has lived and worked in the United States since then. [Oakland, CA, professor emerita at Mills College] "During her first trip back to China in 1991, Liu discovered a cache of 19th- and early 20th-century commercial-studio photographs portraying various Chinese female types prominent in pre-revolutionary China: prostitutes, child street acrobats, women laborers, war refugees. Fascinated by the shifting meanings that result when a historical photograph is separated from its original context, Liu began incorporating such imagery into her paintings. "Liu’s mature painting style combines these historical photographs with imagery and motifs from Chinese painting, as well as objects like ancient Chinese pottery and bronzes. Liu has written of such works, “I hope to wash my subjects of their ‘otherness’ and reveal them as dignified, even mythic figures on the grander scale of history painting.” NOTE ABOUT VARIANT NAME (Hung Liu Kelley) NOT NOTED IN ABOVE VARIANT NAME FIELD: From: Anne Goodyear <agoodyear@bowdoin.edu> Date: Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 4:12 PM To: Laura Latman <llatman@bowdoin.edu> Cc: Frank Goodyear <fgoodyear@bowdoin.edu> Subject: Update requested to curatorial record for BCMA 2021.53, Western Pass Dear Laura: I am doing some work on Hung Liu and just saw that the artist is identified as “Hung Liu Kelley” parenthetically after her name, “Hung Liu.” Although she married Jeff Kelley, I have never seen her referred to as “Hung Liu Kelley.” Could I please request that that name be removed from our public record and that she only be identified as “Hung Liu”? – Is there a particular reason that the name “Hung Liu Kelley” was entered? Additionally, please note that she passed away on August 7, 2021. Could her death date please also be added to the record? Thanks, Anne Anne Collins Goodyear, Ph.D. Co-Director| Bowdoin College Museum of Art 9400 College Station| Brunswick, ME 04011-8494 President, Digital Art History Society Office: 207-798-4352| Mobile: 207-607-9857 Email: agoodyear@bowdoin.edu www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum -------------- On Jul 31, 2022, at 3:45 PM, Laura Latman <llatman@bowdoin.edu> wrote: Hi Anne, Actually, the artist name in the data base is noted ONLY as Hung Liu NOT Hung Liu Kelley. I checked the Kiosk and what appears to be happening is that the variant name which is in the data base is being pulled into the Kiosk’s display. My adding Hung Liu Kelley as a variant name is based on the Getty’s ULAN. If we don’t want variant names to appear on the Kiosk, then perhaps David F. can help. Do you want me to request this? As for the death date, I did make that update and it should appear on the Kiosk tomorrow after it refreshes this evening. Thanks. Laura ------------ From: Anne Goodyear <agoodyear@bowdoin.edu> Date: Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 5:24 PM To: Laura Latman <llatman@bowdoin.edu> Cc: Frank Goodyear <fgoodyear@bowdoin.edu>, David Francis <dfrancis@bowdoin.edu>, Betsy Carpenter <ecarpent@bowdoin.edu> Subject: Re: Update requested to curatorial record for BCMA 2021.53, Western Pass Dear Laura: I am not sure that based on this one example I want to decree that no variant names should ever be displayed. But in this instance, for this artist, it doesn’t seem appropriate. I’m copying David and Betsy to see 1) how and if this can be addressed in Embark; and 2) how and if this can be addressed in TMS… Thanks!! A.

3 objects

10 x 10: Ten Women, Ten Prints: a serigraph portfolio

1995
paper on clamshell box
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.8.1-.10
 

Miss Fortune (from 10 x 10: Ten Women, Ten Prints, A serigraph portfolio)

1995
silkscreen with 8 colors on paper
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.8.5
 

Western Pass

1990
oil with silverleaf on wood, ceramics on canvas
Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund
2021.53