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Gee Yun

Gee Yun (1906 - 1963) was active/lived in New York, California / China, France.  Gee Yun is known for Modernist landscape, figure-genre painting, mural.

Known as a Modernist painter and the creator of a style he called "diamondism", composed of fragmented forms vividly colored, Yun Gee was born in Gee Village, now called Chu Village, near Canton, China in 1906.  At age 15, he arrived in San Francisco in 1921, joining his father, a merchant who traveled there frequently from China.  However, his mother remained behind with his younger brothers and sisters, and Yun Gee never saw her again.  He was able to become an American citizen because of his father's claim that his own citizenship papers had been destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire.

Yun Gee settled near Chinatown and enrolled at the California School of Fine Art under Gottardo Piazzoni and Otis Oldfield.  Both of these men had strong influence on Gee, especially Oldfield who became a close, life-long friend.  They took a sketching trip together in 1928 to the gold mining area of California.  It was written that "Oldfield's Cezanne-ins   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7833 characters.]  Artist bio

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