Hon Chew Hee
American artist (1906-1993)
Hon Chew Hee (1906 – 1993) was a Hawaiian-born American muralist, watercolorist and printmaker.
Early life and education
Hon Chew Hee was born in 1906, in Kahului, Maui, Territory of Hawaii (now Hawaii, U.S.). His father Jackson Hee had moved from China to Hawaii at age 19 in 1885, when he joined Sun Yat-sen's Revolutionary Party. Hon Chew Hee grew up in China, where he received his early training in Chinese brush painting.
Hee returned to the United States in 1920 at age 14 in order to further his training at the San Francisco Art Institute. He also studied in New York City at the Art Students League of New York, at Columbia University, and spent three years in Paris in the 1950s studying with Fernand Léger and Andre Lhote. He was especially greatly influenced by the art of Jean Arp.
Career
From 1932 to the beginning of World War II, Hee lived in San Francisco, where he founded the Chinese Art Association. After graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute then taught in China until moving to Hawaii in 1935. In Hawaii, he worked as a freelance artist and held classes in both Western and Eastern styles of painting.
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