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Seong Moy

Seong Moy (1921 - 2013) was active/lived in New York, Minnesota / China.  Seong Moy is known for Expressionist figure painting, printmaking, teaching.

Obituary for Seong Moy
by Adrienne Moy, Daughter
June 2013

Seong Moy, 92; Artist and Educator

NEW YORK - Seong Moy, a prolific artist and influential educator whose career spanned more than 70 years, died on June 9 at his home in New York. He was 92.

Although Mr. Moy began as an accomplished painter in the 1940s, his reputation today rests chiefly upon his printmaking. He is considered an innovator of technique and vision in his graphic work, developed over nearly five decades.

Born in Canton, China in 1921, Mr. Moy immigrated to the United States in 1931 at the age of ten. He joined other members of his family who had settled in St. Paul, Minnesota where, at the height of the Depression, he began his art studies as a teenager at the WPA Federal Art Project. He continued his art education at the St. Paul School of Art under Cameron Booth, and the WPA Graphic Workshop at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN. Instructors quickly recognized his tale   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11365 characters.]  Artist bio

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