Oral history interview with Dong Kingman
name: label: Interviewee
content: Kingman, Dong, 1911-2000
label: Interviewer
content: Andersen, Irene Poon
label: Names
content: Mills College -- Faculty
label: Names
content: San Diego Museum of Art
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content: United States. Works Progress Administration
label: Interviewer
content: Andersen, Stanley, 1922-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Artists -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
label: Topic
content: Art and motion pictures
label: Topic
content: Asian American art
label: Topic
content: Asian American artists
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content: Chinese American art
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content: Chinese American artists
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content: Asian American painters
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content: Asian American illustrators
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content: Asian American educators
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1997 by Stan Andersen and Irene Poon Andersen.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Kingman, Dong, 1911-2000
label: Interviewer
content: Andersen, Irene Poon
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Dong Kingman (1911-2000) was a Chinese American painter and illustrator based in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. Kingman taught at Columbia University and Hunter College. He worked for the Works Progress Administration.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound cassette (Sound recording (60 min.), 2 x 1-1/4 in.)
label: Extent
content: 18 Pages (Transcript: supplementary material)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1996 Jul. 3-4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kingdong2
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview conducted by Stan and Irene Poon Andersen on July 3-4, 1996, New York City, with Dong Kingman. Accompanying the interview are a few newspaper and magazine articles, and a photograph of Kingman, taken by Irene Poon Andersen, 1996. The material was compiled following the 1995 exhibition "With New Eyes: Toward An Asian American Art History in the West," for which Poon Andersen was a curator and exhibitor.

Kingman discusses his early years and education in Oakland, Calif. and Hong Kong; teaching at Mills College, Oakland, University of Wyoming, Laramie and the San Diego Museum; working on the WPA art project; military service with the US Army OSS art department; leaving the Bay Area when he was drafted, moving first to Washington, D.C. and later to New York City where has remained; and work on movies including "Flower Drum Song," "55 Days to Peking," and "Virgin Soldier."