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Chinese American Modernism WEI LETANG John Way RARE 1967 EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Abstract Lithograph
Chinese American Artist John Way was a pioneer of mid twentieth century Chinese Abstraction. This is a scarce exhibition catalogue from early in Way's career where he found the essence of his style at the crossroads of east and west. There are no examples of this publication in OCLC collections worldwide.
JOHN WAY
Published by Joan Peterson Gallery, Boston to accompany Way's solo exhibition. Printed by The Juvenile Press, Taipei, Taiwan, 1967. First and only printing. Softcover, Chinese stab binding, bound with white silk string, 10.25" x 6", 9 folded leaves of thin paper printed on one side only, front cover is an original lithograph on textured Chinese calligraphy paper. Text includes artist statement, previous exhibitions, and reproduced reviews from various publications. Only the cover is illustrated. GOOD CONDITION: complete as issued. There is a shoreline stain in the upper corner affecting all the pages except the front cover, and light edge and corner wear, otherwise bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce.
"I am searching / for an art form / which shows / the feeling of / powerfulness and subtlety, / the infusion of controlled /and uncontrolled images, / and / the sensations of / order and disorder, / perfection from imperfection." -- John Way 1967.
John Way [Wei Letang] (Chinese/American, 1921-2012) Born in Shanghai, Wei started his artistic studies under the great calligrapher Li Jian (1881-1956). He immigrated to the U.S. in 1956 and studied architecture at M.I.T., he worked in the Boston area until moving to San Francisco in the 1990s. Inspired by both traditional Chinese calligraphy and Abstract Expressionist painting, his work evokes the large gestural work of Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline. His artworks are widely exhibited, including a solo exhibition at the Shanghai Art Museum.
The Joan Peterson Gallery was an art gallery in Boston. Peterson was one of the most prominent art dealers in Boston from the late 1950s into the early 1980s. Her gallery showed the work of leading regional modernists. It closed in 1981.