Teng-Hiok Chiu (1903-1972), Essex Landscape with Pond, Farmhouse and Windmill

Teng-Hiok Chiu (1903-1972).

Essex Landscape with Pond, Farmhouse and Windmill.

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions 20 x 24 inches.

Chinese modernist painter Teng-Hiok Chiu (1903-1972) was born in South China and received a Western education at the behest of his father, a wealthy politician. In 1920, Chiu attended Harvard University for a semester where he realized his interest in painting, and subsequently enrolled in the School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Chiu then lived and studied in Europe from 1923 to 1930. At the Royal Academy of Arts, he gained acclaim for being the first student to win all prizes and scholarships in each competition he entered. He was quickly embraced by the leading art circles of the West as one of their own.

During his time in England, Chiu became interested in Chinese art and worked with Laurence Binyon, the curator of the department of Oriental prints and paintings, at the British Museum in 1929 and returned to China in 1930. In the following decade, Chiu exhibited his work all over the globe.

He arrived in New York in 1938, where his work was included in the prestigious Knoedler’s Gallery collection and he befriended Georgia O’Keeffe, who admired his use of western and eastern elements in his oil paintings. A posthumous show featuring his work was exhibited at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle in 2003.

It was during his time at the Royal Academy that Chiu met Sir George Clausen.  For a time Chiu was influenced by Clausen's style, which can be seen in this oil. Previously The Canon Gallery , in 2004 sold a similar work by Chiu, an Essex view.

Price

£6000.00

This object is eligible for a Certificate of BADA Provenance