Chinese artists by Michel Nau - John Way  魏樂唐   
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

John Way

 
 

魏樂唐

 
     
 

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John Way  魏樂唐  pinyin Wei Letang

   

1921

John Way  魏樂唐 ( 1921-2012 ), was born in Shanghai  China.

 

His father was a collector of Chinese painting and calligraphy.

   

1935/1949

He studied calligraphy under Li Zhongqian ( 1881-1956 ).

   

1937

He hold his first exhibition at the Sun Gallery, Shanghai.
   

1949

He moved to Hong Kong and studied Western Art at the Hong Kong Art Club.
   

1956

He emigrated with his family to the United States and settled in Boston,

 

Massachusetts.

   
 

He studied Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

 

1960

He turned to abstraction.
   

1965

He participated to the collective exhibition Painting without a Brush, at the Institute

 

of Contemporary Art, Boston.

   

1973

He settled in Los Aaltos, Californy.

   

1975

He went to study in Paris.
   
 

He published four series of Chinese calligraphies.  ( 1981 ) ( 1986 ) ( 1991 ) ( 1999 )

   

1985

He participated in Salon des Nations, with ten oil paintings on paper.

   

1998

He was appointed professor at the International Academy Greci-Marino of Vinzaglio  Italy.

   

2001

The Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts dedicated him a great retrospective :

 

 80 years of painting.

   

2012

He died, at the age of 91.

   
 

Danièle Sicard

   

   
 

Collections  selection

Art Museum Hong Kong China

Pacific Asia Museum

Pasadana United States
Fine Arts Museum San Francisco United States

Iris and Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Art

Stanford

United States
   

   
 

Solo exhibitions  selection

   

1968

Oil painting Stratton Center MIT Gallery Boston  United States

1976

Oil painting Rubicon Gallery Los Altos  United States

1981

Calligraphy National Museum of History Taipei  Taïwan

1994

Gallery OnThe Rim San Francisco  United States

2001

80 years of painting Shanghai Art Museum  China

2001

Alisan Fine Arts Hong Kong  China

2003

Alisan Fine Arts Hong Kong  China

2006

Honolulu Academy of Arts Hawai United States

2006

Painterly Calligraphy, John Way Alisan Fine Arts Hong Kong  China

2010

90-Year Retrospective of Chinese-American Artist John Way Art Vim Gallery Beijing  China

   
 

Collective exhibitions  selection

   

1969

Contemporary Art Museum Boston  United States

1985

Salon des Nations  Paris  France

1993

International Biennial Miami  United States

2014

Art Basel Hong Kong  China

2015

 Syncretic Visions - The First Generation of Chinese Artists in America Convention Center

 

Hong Kong  China

2016

02.12 08.12Celebrating 35 Years of Promoting Chinese Contemporary Art HK Central Library

 

Hong Kong  China

   

 
 

John Way  魏樂唐 -  Oil on paper on canvas  -  1993


John Way  魏樂唐  -  Oil on paper on canvas  -  1993

 

John Way  魏樂唐  -  Oil on paper on canvas  -  1992


John Way  魏樂唐  -  Oil on paper on canvas  -  1992

 

John Way  魏樂唐 -  Oil on paper on canvas  -  1991


John Way  魏樂唐  -  Oil on paper on canvas  -  1991

 

 
 

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