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Dong Kingman

Dong Kingman

Artist
WA-00027899
PaintingColor Field
Representation
None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
7
Works in Collection
10
Assets Indexed
0
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
80%
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Authority Records (3)

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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New Acquisitions: American Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1942
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Four American Traveling Exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1940

Source Registry (1)

About

Why this artist matters now

Dong Kingman was an American watercolorist known for urban landscapes rendered in bold, gestural brushwork and translucent color fields. Born in 1911, he developed a distinctly American approach to the medium, working primarily in watercolor to capture the energy and architecture of twentieth-century cities. His paintings combine the fluidity of traditional Chinese brushwork with Western modernist abstraction, creating compositions that prioritize atmosphere and light over representational detail.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago

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Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement
Color Field
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
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Institutional

Museum Collections

Canonical record

Artworks (7)

Artwork sources (4)

7 published of 8 catalogued · 3 with image
  • The Met
    4 published
  • MoMA
    1 publishedof 2 catalogued2 img
  • Cleveland Museum of Art
    1 published
  • Art Institute Chicago
    1 published1 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources
  • Red Poppy
    1947 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Record

Images

Passing Locomotive (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
Passing Locomotive (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

5
Movements1
Color Field
Collections4
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtCleveland Museum of ArtMuseum of Modern ArtArt Institute of Chicago
Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group ExhibitionNew Acquisitions: American Painting and Sculpture
New York · 1942
Group ExhibitionFour American Traveling Exhibitions
New York · 1940