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Wei Letang BIOGRAPHY
1921 Shanghai, China - 2012 California. Known for: Abstract painting.
Following is the obituary of the artist from the San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 2012. Submitted by Katherine Wong. Accomplished Chinese Artist, John Way (Wei Letang), passed away on April 4, 2012... Read full biography
Following is the obituary of the artist from the San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 2012. Submitted by Katherine Wong. Accomplished Chinese Artist, John Way (Wei Letang), passed away on April 4, 2012 at the age of 91. John Way was born in Shanghai, China. As a child he trained with the masters in... Read full biography
Following is the obituary of the artist from the San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 2012. Submitted by Katherine Wong. Accomplished Chinese Artist, John Way (Wei Letang), passed away on April 4, 2012 at the age of 91. John Way was born in Shanghai, China. As a child he trained with the masters in ancient calligraphy. In 1956 Way emigrated to United States and embraced the exciting work of America's East Coast modern art movement. For the past sixty years, Way has attempted to bring these two... Read full biography
Following is the obituary of the artist from the San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 2012. Submitted by Katherine Wong. Accomplished Chinese Artist, John Way (Wei Letang), passed away on April 4, 2012 at the age of 91. John Way was born in Shanghai, China. As a child he trained with the masters in ancient calligraphy. In 1956 Way emigrated to United States and embraced the exciting work of America's East Coast modern art movement. For the past sixty years, Way has attempted to bring these two seemingly diverse art forms in harmony through his paintings. John Way is survived by his wife of 68 years, Jemima; son, Douglas Way and daughter-in-law, Helen Young of Sausalito, CA; daughter, Aurora Geary and son-in-law, Richard Geary of Newburyport,... Read full biography
Following is the obituary of the artist from the San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 2012. Submitted by Katherine Wong. Accomplished Chinese Artist, John Way (Wei Letang), passed away on April 4, 2012 at the age of 91. John Way was born in Shanghai, China. As a child he trained with the masters in ancient calligraphy. In 1956 Way emigrated to United States and embraced the exciting work of America's East Coast modern art movement. For the past sixty years, Way has attempted to bring these two seemingly diverse art forms in harmony through his paintings. John Way is survived by his wife of 68 years, Jemima; son, Douglas Way and daughter-in-law, Helen Young of Sausalito, CA; daughter, Aurora Geary and son-in-law, Richard Geary of Newburyport, MA; granddaughter, Angela Pecjo, of Sudbury, MA; grandson, Christopher Way, of Sausalito, CA; and two great grandd... Read full biography
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Following is the obituary of the artist from the San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 2012. Submitted by Katherine Wong.
Accomplished Chinese Artist, John Way (Wei Letang), passed away on April 4, 2012 at the age of 91. John Way was born in Shanghai, China. As a child he trained with the masters in ancient calligraphy.
In 1956 Way emigrated to United States and embraced the exciting work of America's East Coast modern art movement. For the past sixty years, Way has attempted to bring these two seemingly diverse art forms in harmony through his paintings.
John Way is survived by his wife of 68 years, Jemima; son, Douglas Way and daughter-in-law, Helen Young of Sausalito, CA; daughter, Aurora Geary and son-in-law, Richard Geary of Newburyport, MA; granddaughter, Angela Pecjo, of Sudbury, MA; grandson, Christopher Way, of Sausalito, CA; and two great granddaughters, Kathryn and Elizabeth Pecjo. Services were held at Cypress Lawn on Saturday the 7th of April, 2012.Biography from the Archives of askART
Chinese-American, 1921-2012
Born in Shanghai, John Way has held his own shows in Shanghai since 1937. From 1951 his works have been selected to show at the Hong Kong Art Club Annual Exhibition for five consecutive years.
Way settled down in Boston in 1956, where he studied abstract painting in the West. Throughout the 1960s Way had held many solo shows in Boston, including one in Nexus Gallery in 1960 and one in MIT's Art Museum in 1968.
In 1965, his work was showed alongside with other well-acclaimed contemporary artists including Hans Hartung and Andy Warhol, in a joint exhibition "Painting Without a Brush" held at the Accademia del Verbano in Italy.
His works are in the collections of both the Stanford University Art Museum and the San Francisco Art Museum.
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Ravenel International Art Group
http://ravenel.com/artist.php?id=14&lan=enBiography from Swann Galleries
John Way (1921-2012), also known by his Chinese name Wei Letang, was born in Shanghai and studied calligraphy as a child. He began studying Western art in 1951 and exhibited a number of times in China before emigrating to the United States in 1956, settling in Boston to study architecture and art at M.I.T. In 1965, he was included in the exhibition "Painting Without a Brush" at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston with artists such as Hans Hartung, Andy Warhol and Paul Jenkins, and continued to exhibit both his abstract paintings and calligraphy widely at home and abroad throughout his life.