page_title: Yen Shui-long
section_title: Contributions to art
hierarchical_section_title: Yen Shui-long / Contributions to art
caption_attribution_description: English: Girl from Orchid Island/ Yan Shuilong/ 1936 中文: 紅頭嶼之娘/ 顏水龍/ 1936
context_page_description: Yen Shui-long was a Taiwanese painter and sculptor, was born in Ensuikō Chō, Japanese Taiwan.
context_section_description: Aside from his advertisement designs, Yen Shui-long left behind many mosaic works. One of the most famous mosaics was his From Agricultural to Industrial Society at Jiantan Park. His work Sunflower can also be found on the walls of the Taiyang Tang Bakery in Taichung. In addition, Yen accepted a commission to help with the beautification of Taipei City landmarks such as Zhongshan Hall and the façade of the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, which set a precedent for Taiwanese public art and landscape design.
  Between 1933 and 1944, he returned to Japan, worked on advertising design and applied arts. Yen resided in Taiwan again later, and became a teacher of Tainan Technical College (now National Cheng Kung University).
  Yen made a series of mosaic art works after 1961. And he also created many art works that contain some motifs about Taiwanese aborigines. In 1984, Yen resigned from Shih Chien College of Home Economics (now Shih Chien University). In his old age, Yen worked mainly on painting, drawing, other visual arts and his personal exhibitions. He worked long hours to prepare for a 1997 retrospective meant to celebrate his 95th birthday. While working, he slipped and fell in a bathroom, resulting in a bone fracture that required surgery. Yen died of surgical complications before work for the planned exhibition was completed.
caption: A drawing depicts a Yami girl, Girl from Orchid Island (紅頭嶼之娘), drawn by Yen Shui-long in 1936