Born
February 22, 1906
Gee Village (now called Chu Village),
Yanglu Town, Kaiping County, Guangdong Province, China

Died
June 5, 1963, New York City

Residences
1906-21  Yanglu
1921-27  San Francisco
1927-30  Paris
1930-36  New York
1936-39  Paris
1939-63  New York

Education
1925, California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco (now the San Francisco Art Institute)

Major Collections
Musée d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
The Wolfsonian Museum, Florida International University, Miami Beach, FL

Solo Exhibitions
1926
The Modern Gallery, San Francisco, CA (October/26-11/28/26)
1927
Galerie Carmime, Paris, France (November/27)
1928
Galerie des Artiste et Artisan, Paris, France (April/28)
1929
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France (6/17/29-6/28/29) (Salle Delacroix) (83, Faubourg St-Honoré et 27, Avenue Matignon, Paris 8e)
1931
In Tempo Gallery, New York, NY (4/19/31-4/26/31 or -5/3/31) (49 East 9th St.)
1932
Milch Galleries, New York, NY (6/2/32 – 6/13/32) (108 West 57th Street) (Democracy-In-Action affiliated with British & American Ambulance Corps) (Admission proceeds towards Ambulances and Equipment for United Nations)
Balzac Galleries, New York, NY (5/3/32-5/28/32) (American Room, 449 Park Ave, corner of 57th St)
1933
The San Francisco Art Center, San Francisco, CA
Painting “Last Supper” shown at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Bronx, NY (June 1933)
1934
Exhibition of Yun Gee paintings, conjoined with Yun Gee: First Dance Recital, at The National Musical Benefit Society, New York, NY (January/34) (21 Gramercy Park)
1936
Galerie à la Reine Margot, Paris, France (7 Quai de Conti, Paris VIe, Tel: Danton 62-50)
1937
Galerie à la Reine Margot, Paris, France (3/19/37-4/19/37) (7 Quai de Conti, Paris VIe, Tel: Danton 62-50)
1940
Temple’s Exhibition Galleries, New York, NY (4/30/40 – 5/12/40) (2 East 34th Street, New York City)
Mural “The Spirit of Chinese Resistance” shown at Young China Club, New York, NY (September 1940) (18 Mulberry Street)
Montross Gallery, New York, NY (12/9/40 – 12/21/40) (785 Fifth Avenue, New York)
1942
Milch Galleries, New York, NY (6/2/42-6/13/42) (108 West 57th Street, NYC)
1943
Milch Galleries, New York, NY (10/4/43-10/23/43) (108 West 57th Street, NYC)
1945
Lilienfeld Gallery, New York, NY (4/2/45-4/21/45) (21 E. 57th Street, NYC)
1946
Officers Club, Fort Hamilton, NY (3/15/46)
Lucien Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco, CA (9/16/46-10/12/46) (1407 Gough Street, San Francisco 9)
1947
China Institute in America, New York, NY (China House, 125 East 65th Street) (8/5/47-9/15/47)
1948
The Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ (1/5/48-1/26/48) (Museum Galleries of the Bergen Branch Library, Bergen and Clinton Avenues, Jersey City, NJ)
1962-63
Gudenzi Galleria, New York, NY (12/4/62-1/30/63) (717 Lexington Avenue, New York 22, N.Y., between 57th and 58th Streets)
1968
Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY (5/7/68 - 5/31/68) (825 Madison Avenue new York, N.Y.)
1979-80
The Paintings of Yun Gee, The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (10/13/79-11/18/79); Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (3/18/80 – 4/27/80); Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME (10/10/80-11/23/80)
1983
Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY (11/8/83 – 12/10/83) (24 E 81 Street, NY 10028, 212-879-8200)
1991
Jan Holloway Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2/7/91-3/16/91)
1992
The Art of Yun Gee, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (3/25/92-6/14/92)
1995
Yun Gee: San Francisco, Paris, New York, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (8/19/95-9/5/95)
1998
Yun Gee, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (11/14/98-12/1/98)
2002
Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY (3/20/02-4/20/02)
Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (4/2002)
2003-04
The Art of Yun Gee, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA (11/15/03-2/15/04)
2005
Yun Gee: A Modernist Painter, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (10/19/05-11/19/05)

Two Person Exhibitions
Yun Gee, Helen Gee and daughter Li-lan, New York
1988
Yun Gee and Li-lan: Paintings by a Father and Daughter, Southampton Campus Fine Arts Gallery, Southampton, NY (6/27/88-7/25/88)
2008
Experiences of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan, Jason McCoy Inc., New York (3/13/08-4/12/08)-Exhibition commemorating the release of Experiences of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan by Joyce Brodsky, University of Washington Press
Experiences of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing, China (11/15/08-12/16/08) -Exhibition commemorating the release of Experiences
of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and
Li-lan by Joyce Brodsky, University of Washington Press

Group Exhibitions
1928
Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France
1929
Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France
1930
Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France
1931
15th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, New York, NY
Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings by American and Foreign Artists, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (6/12/31-10/1/31)
1932
16th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, New York, NY
Murals by American Painters and Photographers, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Social Viewpoint in Art, John Reed Club, New York, NY
1933
17th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, New York, NY
1934
18th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, New York, NY
1935
19th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, New York, NY
1936
20th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, New York, NY
1937
Salon d’Automne, Paris, France
Peinture Nouvelle, Galerie Le Niveau, Paris, France (October 1937)
L’Enfant dans la Peinture Moderne, Galerie Le Niveau, Paris, France (11/15/37-11/30/37)(133 Boul. Montparnasse, Paris, Tel: Odéon 54-57)
4e Exposition “Octobre 37”, Galerie Carmine, Paris, France (10/16/37-10/30/37)(51 Rue de Seine, Paris 6e, Tel: Danton 91-10)
1938
Salon d’Automne, Paris, France
Fleurs et Paysages, Galerie Carmine, Paris, France (1/16/38-1/31/38) (51 Rue de Seine, Paris 6e, Tel: Danton 91-10)
L'Exposition du Prix Paul-Guillaume, Galerie Berheim-Jeune, Paris, France
4e Salon de la Piste à l’Ecran, Galerie Carmine, Paris, France (4/2/38)(51 Rue de Seine, Paris 6e, Tel: Danton 91-10)
La  Xve Exposition du Salon des Tuileries, Paris, France (6/3/38) (Pavillon des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, 2 Avenue Rapp.)
Exposition: Aquarelles, Gouches, Dessins, Galerie Contemporaine, Paris, France (7/8/38-7/28/38) (36, Rue de Seine, Paris 6e, Tel: Danton 99-38)
Exposition: Rentrée de Vacances 38, Galerie Carmine, Paris, France (10/15/38-10/29/38) (51 Rue de Seine, Paris 6e, Tel: Danton 91-10)
5e Salon “Etrennes 38: Peintures, Sculptures, Dessins, Aquarelles, Gouaches, Céramique”, Galerie Carmine, Paris, France (12/17/38-1/14/39)(51 Rue de Seine, Paris 6e, Tel: Danton 91-10)
Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France
1939
6e Salon “Salon d’Éte: Peintures, Sculptures, Dessins, Aquarelles, Gouaches, Céramique”, Galerie Carmine, Paris, France (7/2/39-9/30/39) (51 Rue de Seine, Tel: Danton 91-10)
1941
Art for China, Ritz Tower, New York, NY
Paintings by Fifty Oncoming Americans, Boston Institute of Modern Art, Boston, MA (5/16/41-6/15/41)
Work by Twenty-Five Artists, Montross Gallery, New York, NY (June 1941, for 3 weeks)
1942
The 8th Annual Group Exhibition by American Artists, Montross Gallery, New York, NY (February 1942)
1944
Portrait of America, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 1944) (exhibition conducted by Artists-For-Victory, Inc.) (competition inaugurated and prize money donated by Pepsi-Cola Co.)
Opening Exhibition “Inter-Racial Art,” International Print Society, New York, NY (10/3/44-10/20/44) (38 West 57th Street, NYC)
1974
Inaugural Exhibition, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
1975
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
1977
Selections from the Lawrence H. Bloedel Bequest and Related Works from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Great East River Bridge, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (3/19/83 – 6/19/83)
Empire City and the Age of Urbanism (1875-45), Grand Central Galleries, New York, NY (12/1988-1/28/89) (24 West 57th St., NY 10019, 212-867-3344)
1993
The Art Works of Sanyu and Yun Gee, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (11/6/93-11/23/93)
1994
Four Senior Painters in Early Spring, Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (3/12/94-4/3/94)
1995
Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (6/25/95-11/26/95)
With New Eyes: Toward an Asian American Art History in the West, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (9/24/95-10/26/95)
1998
Changing Perspectives on Modernism, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR (10/30/98-1/3/99)
2000
Works on Paper 1929-1949: Guan Liang, San Yu, Kuo Pochuan, Yun Gee,Pang Xunqin, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (7/8/00-7/30/00)
2000-01
The Pacific Makes Us Neighbors, Residence: U.S. Ambassador to Beijing, Art in Embassies Program, Beijing, China (11/2000)
On Gold Mountain: A Chinese American Experience, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, CA (7/22/00-1/1/01)
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (10/22/00-2/25/01)
2002
On-Ramps: Transitional Moments in California Art, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA (6/1/02-Labor Day/2002)
2002-2003
From Emperors to Hoi Polloi: Portraits of An Era, 1851-1945, The Wolfsonian Museum, Florida International University, Miami Beach, FL (11/22/02-5/11/03)
2003
Themes on Women: Sanyu, Yun Gee, Lin Fengmian, Guan Liang, Pang Xunqin, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (4/5/03-4/30/03)
2003-2004
The Not-So Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (11/22/03-2/15/04)
2004
The Not-So Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA (3/6/04-6/27/04)
Art Singapore, The Contemporary Asian Art Fair, Lin & Keng Gallery, Singapore (4/8/04-4/11/04)
China International Gallery Exposition, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing, China (4/22/04-4/26/04)
Sanyu & Yun Gee 1926 – 1960, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan  (8/7/04-8/29/04)
2005
China International Gallery Exposition, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing, China (2/5/05-5/5/05)
The International Asian Art Fair, Marlborough Gallery, The Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, NY (5/1/05-5/6/05)
Landscape – Cityscape, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (5/5/05-5/3005)
Art Singapore, The Contemporary Asian Art Fair, Lin & Keng Gallery, Singapore (9/29/05-10/3/05)
Summer Dream, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (8/13/05-8/29/05)
Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (9/14/05-10/15/05)
Chinese Masters II, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2006
The International Asian Art Fair, Marlborough Gallery, The Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, NY (3/31/06-4/5/06)
China International Gallery Exposition, Marlborough Gallery, Beijing (4/12/06-4/16/06)
Art Basel 37, Marlborough Gallery, Miami Beach, Fla., (6/14/06-6/18/06)
2007
Art In America: 300 Years of Innovation, Guggenheim Museum, Venues: National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China (2/9/ 07-4/5/07), Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China (5/30/07-6/30/07)
Cubism In Asia, The Japan Foundation, Venue: La Maison de la culture du Japon a Paris, Paris, France (5/16/07-7/7/07)
Inaugural Exhibition, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing, China (4/21/07-7/7/07)
2008
Asian/American/Modern Art Shifting Currents, 1900-1970, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (10/25/08 - 1/18/09)
2009
Asian/American/Modern Art Shifting Currents, 1900-1970, Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, NY (2/18/09 - 08/23/09)
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (1/30/09 - 4/19/09)

Selected Exhibition Catalogues & Yun Gee, music performance, ca. 1930s or 1940s

Monographs
Brodsky, Joyce, The Paintings of Yun Gee, The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1979
Wang, David Teh-yu; Ju, Jane C.; Li-lan, The Art of Yun Gee, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, 1992
The Art Work of Sanyu and Yun Gee, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, 1994
Lin, Yu-Xiang, Yun Gee 1906-1963, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, 1995
Wang, Jason, Yun Gee, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, 1998
Fort, Ilene, Yun Gee: A Modernist Painter, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, 2005

Books
Lee, Anthony W., ed., Yun Gee: Poetry, Writings, Art, Memories, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA 2003
Brodsky, Joyce, Experiences of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, 2008 (For more information, click here)

Selected Exhibition Catalogues & Brochures
Exhibition of Paintings by Elliot Orr, Yun Gee, Balzac Galleries (American Room), New York, 1931
de la Piste à l’Ecran, Galerie Carmine, Paris 1938
Le Livert Des Artistes, Le Salon des Indépendants, Paris, 1939
Paintings by Yun Gee, Montross Gallery, New York, 1940
Paintings by Yun Gee, Lilienfeld Galleries, New York, 1945
Paintings by Yun Gee, Lucien Labaudt Art Gallery, San Francisco, 1946
Exhibition of Paintings by Yun Gee, China Institute of America Headquarters, China House, New York, 1947
An Exhibition of the Work of Yun Gee, The Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, 1948
Oil Paintings by Yun Gee, Gudenzi Galleria, New York, 1962
Yun Gee, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, 1968
Yun Gee: Early Modernist Paintings 1926-1932, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, 1983
Art Asia Hong Kong, Art Asia Fair, 1992
New Chinese Painting: The Twentieth Century Selection Exhibition, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, 1994
With New Eyes: Toward an Asian American Art History in the West, San Francisco State University Art Department, San Francisco, 1995
Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, 1996 (Chinese)
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2000
Works on Paper 1929-1949, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, 2000
The Pacific Makes Us Neighbors, American Embassy, Beijing, 2000
A Minimal Vision, Chambers Fine Art, New York, 2002
Yun Gee, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, 2002
The Not-So Still Life: A Century of California Still Life Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, 2003
The Art and Poetry of Yun Gee, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, 2003
Landscape – Cityscape, Marlborough Gallery, New York, 2005
Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900 - 1970, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco co publishers with University of California Press, California 2008
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2009

Selected Bibliography
Yun Gee in his studio, New York,
circa 1932
Johnson, Esther J., “Oriental Group is Developing New Technique,” The San Francisco Examiner, n.d. (c. 1921-27)
Claypool, L.E., “Bachelors from Young Art Body,” The Montana Record-Herald, Feb 17, (c. 1921-27)
Beaux-Art Editorial, n.d. (c. 1927-1930)
Rosebery, Dr., “Préface,” n.d. (c. 1927-1930)
Salinger, Jehanne Bietry, The San Francisco Examiner, January 1927
Salinger, Jehanne Bietry, “Is Glory Awaiting This Steerage Passenger?”  The San Francisco Examiner, July 17, 1927
Salinger, Jehanne Bietry, The San Francisco Examiner, August 1927
Bonish, Lue, Grapouillot, February 1929
New York Herald Tribune, Paris, Thursday, June 27, 1929
“Exposition of the Work of Yun Gee,” La Saggesse, July 1929
Reuss, Paule, “Visits to the Studio at Yun Gee’s by Paule Reuss,” Société des Amateurs d’Art et des Collectionneurs, July 1929
Batholol, Beaux-Arts, August 15, n.d. (c. 1929)
Menken, Reuben H.,  "Yun Gee, American Chinese Artist," China Weekly Review, 1, n.d. (c.1930-36)
Young Arthur A., “Yun Gee: Chinese Interpreter of East to West,” The Chinese Weekly Review, n.d. (c. 1930-1936)
de Pourvilla, Albert, “How Art is Being Transformed The Chinese Artist Yun Gee,” la Dépêche Coloniale, January 1930
Wolcott, R. Harrison,  "Chinese Artist Charms Paris," Brooklyn Eagle, Sunday, August 31, 1930
Young, Arthur A., The China Weekly Review, December 1930
Piper, Jean,  "Chinese Painter Back to Show His New Art," The World, n.d. (c. 1931)
Semons, Lillian, “Group Exhibit Feature At Brooklyn Museum,” (unidentified newspaper), n.d. (c. 1931)
“Exhibitions of the Week,” (unidentified newspaper), n.d. (c. 1931)
“News and Comment of Current Art Events,” (unidentified newspaper), n.d. (c. 1931)
“Yun Gee, Chinese Painter, Exhibits Actor’s Portraits,” New York Evening Post, n.d. (c.1931)
“Yun Gee, Young Chinese, Here to Exhibit Paintings,” (unidentified newspaper), Sunday, April 19, 1931
“Painting of Confucius,” New York Herald Tribune, Sunday May 10, 1931
Jewell, Edward Alden, “Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum,” The New York Times, Sunday, June 14, 1931
Hung, William, “The Chinese Picture of Life,” Asia, September 1931
“Chinese Here Paints Mural to Aid Flood Victims,” New York Herald Tribune, September 26, 1931
Mitchell, Joseph,  "Apostle of the New Cubism Teaches Art in a Tenement," New York World-Telegram, n.d. (c.1932)
“…Aids Flood Sufferers in China,” (unidentified newspaper), n.d. (c. 1932)
“Mural to Aid Chinese: Native Artist’s Paintings to Be Sold for Flood Sufferers,” The New York Times, n.d. (c. 1932)
“The Social Viewpoint in Art,” New York Herald Tribune, n.d. (c. 1932)
New York Evening Post, n.d. (c. 1932)
Vaughan, Malcolm, Exhibition of Paintings by Elliot Orr, Yun Gee, Balzac Galleries (American Room), (unidentified newspaper), New York, 1931
Jewell, Edward Alden, “Today of Murals by American Painters,” The New York Times, May 3, 1932, p. 19
“Museum with a Penthouse Opens Modern Art Exhibit,” New York World-Telegram, Wednesday, May 4, 1932, p. 35
Jewell, Edward Alden, “In the Realm of Art: Museum of Modern Art is ‘at Home’,” The New York Times, Sunday, May 8, 1932, sec. 8
“Artists Attack Museum,” The New York Times, May 13, 1932, p. 21
Frankel, S.W., “Yun Gee, Elliot Orr,” The Art News, May 14, 1932
Cravens, Junius, “Two young Ideas,” The Art World, n.d. (c. 1933)
“Art Notes,” (unidentified newspaper), n.d (c. 1933)
“Brooklyn Exhibits Art,” (unidentified newspaper), n.d. (c. 1933)
“Chinese Artist Plans Exhibit,” (unidentified newspaper), n.d. (c. 1933)
“Church to Show Painting: Alterpiece by Yun Gee To Be on View in Bronx Tuesday,” New York Herald Tribune, n.d. (c. 1933)
“Distinctive Coloring, Modern Treatment Feature Art Exhibit,” (unidentified newspaper), n.d. (c. 1933)
“Freak Art on Hand,” New York Herald Tribune, n.d. (c. 1933)
“Public Showing of ‘The Last Supper,’” New York Evening Post, n.d. (c. 1933)
“Young Chinese Artist…” (unidentified newspaper), n.d. (c. 1933)
“Yun Gee to Paint for Bronx Church,” (unidentified newspaper), n.d. (c. 1933)
Hanifin, Ada, “Undeterred by Depression: Water Colors of Yun Gee on View,” The San Francisco Examiner, Sunday, February 26, 1933
“Art Brevities,” The New York Times, Thursday, March 30, 1933
“WATER COLORS: Yun Gee Shows Twenty New Abstractions,” The Chinese Christian Student, April 1933
Jewell, Edward Alden, “In the Realm of Art: A Lone Wolf and the Salons Show,” The New York Times, sec. 8, Sunday, May 7, 1933
“Modern Religious Art Exhibit,” The Parish Visitor, Vol. 1, No. 20, June 1933
“Painting of Last Supper On Exhibition in Bronx,” The New York Times, June 1933 (from transcription)
“Painting of Last Supper of Exhibition in Bronx,” (unidentified newspaper), June 20, 1933
“…Views Museum Exhibit,” (unidentified newspaper), Monday June 22, 1933
“Altar Piece Exhibited,” New York Evening Post, Saturday, June 24, 1933
The New York Times, Sunday, June 25, 1933
M. M., “Chinese Music,” The New York Sun, n.d. (c. 1934)
“Weekly Broadcasts Planned by Musical Benefit Society,” Gramercy Park, January 1934
“Versatile Chinese,” (unidentified newspaper), Sunday, March 18, 1934
“Chinese Fine Arts Coming to Berkeley,” The Villager, March 22, 1934
“Chinese Art Evening at the Berkeley,” The Villager, April 5, 1934
“Independent Art Loses Pet Subject,” The New York Times, Tuesday, April 10, 1934
Genauer, Emily, “Art in Fun,” New York World-Telegram, Saturday, April 14, 1934
“Art Independents Open Yearly Show,” The New York Times, Monday May 7, 1934
Vukovic, M., “Yun Gee,” New York Herald Tribune, Sunday, January 19, 1936
M. B., “Peinture Nouvelle," La Tribune des Nations, October 28, 1937
Chinese Art (Le Journal), n.d. (c. 1938)
Mille, Pierre, (catalogue), Reìne Margot, Paris, 1938
Murat, Princess Achille, (catalogue), Reìne Margot, Paris, 1938
St. Ogan, Alain de, (catalogue), Reìne Margot, Paris, 1938
“Exposit of Salon des Indépendants,” Le Cri de Paris, March 11, 1938
“Chinese Artist to Show Paintings Here Tomorrow,” New York Herald Tribune, European Edition, Friday, March, 18, 1938
Salmon, Andre, “Young France and an Old China,” Aux Ecoutes, March 19, 1938
“Peinture Chinoise,” Le Nouveau Cri, No. 218, March 19, 1938
Cogniat, Raymond, “De M. Yun Gee à feu M. Degas,” Beaux-Arts, No. 273, March 25, 1938
Lemonnier, Maurice, “Yun Gee,” Beaux-Arts, No. 273, Les Expositions, March 25, 1938
Theophile, Charles, “Yun Gee,” Marianne, March 23, 1938
Fegal, Charles, “Yun Gee,” La Semaine a Paris, March 30, 1938
Le Veilleur, “Yun Gee at the Reine Margot,” Les Heures de Paris, April 6, 1938
Gauthier, Maximilien, “Exposition,” L’Art Vivant, No. 222, June 1938, p. 36-37
Salmon, Andre, “Salon des Tuileries,” Aux Ecoutes, June 11, 1938
Cogniat, Raymond, “Une image de Confucius,” Beaux-Arts, June 24, 1938
“16 American Artists Showing In Paris ‘Independants’ Show,” (unidentified newspaper), n.d. (c. 1939)
“Yun Gee – Harmonie Universelle,” Beaux-Arts, March 17, 1939
Lee, Hsing Shih, “Yun Gee and the Art of New China,” Chinese Nationalist Daily, n.d. (c. 1940’s)
“The Seasonal Group,” Art News, n.d. (c. 1940), p. 22
Mille, Pierre, “Yun Gee,” Paintings by Yun Gee, Montross Gallery, New York, 1940 Kruse, A. Z., Brooklyn Eagle, May 5, 1940
Burrows, Carlyle, New York Herald Tribune, Sunday, May 12, 1940
“Art Notes,” The New York Times, September 10, 1940
“A Review of the Art Shows,” December 1940
“Heard at the Galleries,” Pictures on Exhibit, December 1940
Genauer, Emily, New York World-Telegram, December 14, 1940
Breuning, Margaret, “In the World of Art: What the Galleries Offer to the Public,” New York Journal American, Sunday, December 15, 1940
Burrows, Carlyle, New York Herald Tribune, December 15, 1940
Devree, Howard, The New York Times, December 15, 1940
Johnson, Rhodes D., Jersey City Journal, The Arts-Here and There, December 15, 1940
J. W. L., “Yun Gee: A Brilliant Chinese Dufy,” Art News, December 15, 1940
Kruse, A. Z., “Yun Gee Improves,” Brooklyn Eagle, Sunday, December 15, 1940
Art Digest, December 15, 1940
Plaut, James, S., “50 Rising American Painters at 50,” Art News, n.d. (c. 1941)
“Artist Yun Gee Portrayed Burma Road in 1941,” The Sperry News, n.d. (c. 1941), p. 4
Devree, Howard, “A Reviewer’s Notebook,” The New York Times, Sunday, April 13, 1941
“News and Notes of Art,” The New York Times, Saturday, May 10, 1941
“New WPA Landscape Class,” The Art Digest, June 1, 1941
“Old Masters in Review,” The Sun, Saturday, June 7, 1941
Burrows, Carlyle, “The Summer Season in the Galleries,” New York Herald Tribune, Sunday, June 8, 1941
“Chinese Artist to Teach WPA Class,” Sunday News, June 8, 1941
Farrell, Paul, “Not Too Serious,” The Brooklyn Spectator, No. 24, Issue 440, Friday, July 25, 1941
Jewell, Edward Alden, “In the Realm of Art: Varied Activity,” The New York Times, Sunday, August 31, 1941
Finch, Roy, “Three Newcomers Enliven The Season’s Beginnings,”  New York Herald Tribune, Sunday September 7, 1941
“Pictures Japanese Imperialist Dream,” The New York Sun, December 12, 1941
Johnson, Rhodes D., “Yun Gee, Chinese Artist’s System of Painting is Called ‘Diamondism’; It is Really a Philosophy of the Place of Light in Art,” (unidentified newspaper), n.d. (c. 1942-43)
“They’ll Interpret East to West,” (unidentified newspaper), n.d. (c. 1942-43)
Burrows, Carlyle, “Eighth Annual,” New York Herald Tribune, Notes and Comment on Events in Art, Sunday February 15, 1942
“Art in Brief,” The New York Times, Society—Art Section, Wednesday, February 18, 1942
“Paintings by Yun Gee,” New York Herald Tribune, Art News of the Week, June 7, 1942
Braggiotti, Mary, “He Paints the ‘Inner Man,’” New York Post, Daily Magazine and Comic Section, Tuesday, October 26, 1942, p. 1
Upson, Melville, The New York Sun, October 15, 1943
Taylor, Tim, “Artists Irked by Sale Of Canvases for Junk,” New York World-Telegram, February 21, 1944
“The Yun Gee Portrait of John B. Powell,” The University of Missouri School of Journalism Bulletin Series 94, Vol. 45, No. 10, May 15, 1944
“Yun Gee Oil Shown At Metropolitan,” (unidentified newspaper; The Shanghai Post and Mercury?), October 20, 1944
McBride, H., The New York Sun, April 7, 1945
“Fifth Avenue’s Parade To Be the Finest in Year,” New York Post, March 31, 1945
“Yun Gee,” Paintings by Yun Gee, Lucien Labaudt Art Gallery, San Francisco, 1946
Lieber, Stephanie, “Yun Gee,” Exhibition of Paintings by Yun Gee, China Institute of America Headquarters, China House, New York, 1947
Haff, Stephen, “About The Artist,” An Exhibition of the Work of Yun Gee, The Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, 1948
“Bridge in Winter by Yun Gee,” House & Garden, n.d. (c. 1950’s)
Klyne, Maurice, “A Monthly Bulletin,” As Klyne Sees It, April 1953
Salinger, Jehanne Bietry, “Yun Gee,” Oil Paintings by Yun Gee, Gudenzi Galleria, New York, 1962
Carer, Mabel MacDonald, “Retrospective of Yun Gee Works” The Villager, Dec. 6, 1962, p. 11
“San Francisco Artist has N.Y. Exhibit,” (unidentified newspaper), December 21, 1962, p. 5
Ferren, John, Yun Gee, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, 1968
Pepper, Stephen D., “Introduction,” Yun Gee, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, 1968
Yun Gee, theatre performance,
circa 1934-35
Canaday, John, “Animals That Speak Through Artist,” The New York Times, May 11, 1968
Cochrane, Diane, “Yun Gee: Forgotten Synchromist Painter,” American Artist, January 1974
Li-lan, Canvas with an Unpainted Part: An Autobiography, published by Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan, 1976
Brodsky, Joyce, The Paintings of Yun Gee, The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1979
Gee, Helen, “Yun Gee’s World: A Reminiscence,” The Paintings of Yun Gee, Joyce Brodsky, The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1979, p. 9-10; The Art of Yun Gee, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, 1992, p. 8-11
“At Uconn’s Benton Museum,” The Morning Record and Journal, Saturday, November 17, 1979
Curtis, Cathy, “Successful East-West mix,” (unidentified newspaper), n.d. (c. 1980)
Shere, Charles, “Paintings of a Tragic Life,” Oakland Tribune, April 13, 1980
Castagnozzi, Mary, “The Rediscovered Genius of Artist Yun Gee,” East West, April 16, 1980
Albright, Thomas, “Chronicle of a Remarkable Modernist Who Fell Apart,” San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, April 26, 1980
Tannenbaum, Judith, “Yun Gee: A Rediscovery,” Arts Magazine, May 1980, p. 164-167
Li-lan, “China: My Father’s Village,” Today, Vol. 1, Tokyo, July 1980, p. 4-15
Cohen, Ronny, “Yun Gee: An Introduction (1906-1963),” Yun Gee: Early Modernist Paintings 1926-1932, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, 1983
Goldberger, Paul, Brooklyn Salutes Its Great Bridge at 100 With Paintings, Photos and Words,” The New York Times, Friday, March 18, 1983, p. C1, C11
McCullough, David, “The Great Bridge And The American Imagination”, The New York Times Magazine, March 27, 1983/Section 6
“Li-lan and Yun Gee,” The East Hampton Star, Vol. XCIX, No. 11, At The Galleries, November 10, 1983
Tallmer, Jerry, “Oil in their blood: the tie that binds,” New York Post, November 12, 1983
Orr-Cahall, Christina, ed. The Art of California: Selected Works from The Collection of the Oakland Museum, The Oakland Museum Art Department, Oakland, 1984, p. 111
Boas, Nancy, The Society of Six: California Colorists, Bedford Arts Publishers, San Francisco, 1988, p. 199
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum, Chinese American Portraits, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988, p. 138
“Gee he was good,” New York Post, Weekend/Dining, November 8, 1991
Wang, David Teh-yu, “The Art of Yun Gee Before 1936,” The Art of Yun Gee, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, 1992, p. 18-52
Ju, Jane C., “In Search of Yun Gee, the Chinese, American, and Modernist Painter,” The Art of Yun Gee, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, 1992, p. 53-64
Li-lan, “A Journey Home,” The Art of Yun Gee, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, 1992, 12-15
Jones, Harvey L., San Francisco: The Painted City, Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1992, p. 46-47
Sansegundo, Sheridan, The East Hampton Star, At The Galleries, May 27, 1993
California History: The Magazine of the California Historical Society, Summer 1993, cover
Kirszner, Laurie G. & Stephen R. Mandell, Common Ground: Reading and Writing about America’s Cultures, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1994, p. 228
Nash, Steven A., Facing Eden: 100 years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, 1995, p. 53-54
Lin Yu-Xiang, “The Historical Transformation of the Aethetic Consciousness of ‘Modernity’ in Chinese Classical Painting: The Historical Status of Yun Gee in Contemporary Chinese Artistic Movement” Yun Gee 1906 – 1963, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, 1995, p. 10-13
Higa, Karin, “Some Notes on an Asian American Art History,” in With New Eyes: Toward an Asian American Art History in the West, San Francisco State University Art Department, San Francisco, 1995, p. 9-14
Jana, Reena, “The Freshest Visions,” Asian Art News, November/December 1995, p. 64-69
Higa, Karin, “With New Eyes: Towards an Asian American Art History in the West,” American Art Review, December–January 1996, p. 124-129
Karlstrom, Paul J., On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, 1900-1950, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1996
Lee, Anthony W., “Another View of Chinatown: Yun Gee and the Chinese Revolutionary Artists’ Club,” Reclaiming San Francisco: History Politics, Culture, eds. James Brook, Chris Carlsson & Nancy J. Peters, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1998, p. 163-182
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall, California Art: 450 Years of Paintings and other Media, Dustin Publications, Los Angeles, 1998, p. 227, 304, 545
Wang, Jason, “Yun Gee and China,” Yun Gee, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, 1998
Pai, Maggie, “Searching For New Directions,” Asian Art News, January/February 1998, p. 52-55
Wadsworth, Lois, “Curators and Artists Talk About C. S. Price,” Eugene Weekly, November 19, 1998
Gee, Helen, “Introduction,” Helen’s World of Yun Gee, Sotheby’s, Taipei, 1999, p. 12-40
Pai, Maggie,  “Taiwan Autumn Auctions,” Asian Art, Auction News, December 1999
Mailman, Erika, “Conserving the Past,” The Museum of California, Spring 2000
Bing, Nancy, “Reclaiming Yun Gee,” Art & Collection, Taipei, No. 90, March 2000
Muchnic, Suzanne, "In These United States of California," Los Angeles Times, Sunday, September 17, 2000
Miles, Christopher, “California Dreaming,”  Flaunt, October 2000
Weinraub, Bernard, “Beyond Tans and Tinsel,” The New York Times, Page E1, Page E4, October 23, 2000
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Selected Writings by Yun Gee
Yun Gee in his studio, San Francisco, circa 1925
“Diamondism: Theory of Art,” (printed brochure), 1940
"East and West Meet in Paris," (unpublished essay), 1944
“4-D is on the Wing and the Wise Men are Nearest” (printed brochure), n.d.
"Yun Gee Speaks his Mind," (unpublished essay, MoMA Archives)

Teaching Career
“Paintings by the Students of Yun Gee: Landscape Class of the Museum of the City of New York,” assisted by the WPA Art Project and the WPA Project at the Museum of the City of New York, 4th Floor gallery, with twenty-three paintings on view, from August 29th through September, 1941.

Open Studio
At the studio of Yun Gee, 24 East 67th Street, New York City, Sunday, February 4th, 1940. Invited by Lillian Zerwick for tea at four o’clock in the afternoon. (Ref.: invitation card)

Theater Performance
1934-1935
Directed and wrote the play script for “The Kuan Kung Generosity”

Music Performance
“Yun Gee: First Dance Recital,” at The National Musical Benefit Society, 21 Gramercy Park, New York. Monday evening, January 8th, 1934, at 8:30 o’clock, conjoined with an exhibition of Yun Gee’s paintings. The program was “Sur-realistic Dance to the poem of Li Po (Classic Chinese Poet Laureate) “Drinking in the Moonlight.” Assisted by C.Y. Chu. Instruments by courtesy of N.Y. Band Instrument Co., costumes by courtesy of Brooks Costume Co. (Ref.: announcement card)

“An Evening in Artistic China,” at The Institute of Chinese Studies, 45 West 45th Street, New York, on Tuesday, April 3rd, 1934, at 8:00 PM. The program included Dancing by Yun Gee and An San Lu, and Modern Chinese Interpretations by Yun Gee. (Ref. Program flyer)

“Yun Gee: Dance Recital,” at the University Settlemet, 184 Eldridge Street, New York City. Monday evening, March 19th, at 8 o’clock, conjoined with an exhibition of Yun Gee’s paintings. Prelude included “The Development and Technique of the Modern Chinese Gymnastic and Dance” by Yun Gee. The program was “Sur-realistic Dance to the poem of Li Po “Drinking in the Moonlight.” Assisted by C.Y. Chu and Louise Krause. Instruments by courtesy of M. Kalashen, 14 Cooper Square. (Ref.: announcement card) (year unknown)

“United Nations Series: Chinese Music at the Brooklyn Museum”, Lecture Hall, Brooklyn Museum, New York. December 5th, 1942, at 2:30. The program included both classical and modern Chinese music, given by Yun Gee and George Chantong. Yun Gee performed on string and wind instruments from the Museum’s collection. Program arranged by David LeVita, musicologist of the Brooklyn Museum. (Ref.: press release and program flyer)

“Yun Gee, Foremost Chinese Modernist Painter & Musician: Chinese Music”, assisted by Henry Cowell, at Club Auditorium 165 W. 23rd St, New York, Pierre Degeyter Music Club, November 29th, Friday. The program was played on the sorrow flute, the Chinese flute, the Taoist flute, the Chinese oboe, the long lute, the moon lute, the Yan Ch’in (Chinese piano). (Ref.: print poster) (year unknown)

“Music of China,” at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, September 19th, 1943. The program of “Traditional Music” played by Yun Gee on four different musical instruments, Hsiao, Trumbo, Yan Ch’in, Chung. Program arranged by David LeVita, musicologist of the Brooklyn Museum. (Ref.: program flyer)

Fund Raising/Donation
Flood scene in homeland painted by Yun Gee. The mural, seventeen feet long, was shown at the Chinese Public School, 16 Mott Street. “Chinese Here Paints Mural to Aid Flood Victims,” New York Herald Tribune, September 26, 1931, with illustration.

Yun Gee solo exhibition of thirty paintings at the Milch Galleries, 108 West 57th Street, New York, from June 2 – 13, 1932. Democracy-In-Action, affiliated with British & American Ambulance Corps; all admission proceeds towards Ambulances and Equipment for United Nations.

Paintings and drawings by Yun Gee, Children’s Art Center, University Settlement, 184 Eldrige Street, for the benefit of United China Relief. February, 1942.

Public Collection
“Portrait of John B. Powell”, officially accepted by the Board of Curators of the University of Missouri, was formally presented to the School of Journalism by Yun Gee at the Milch Galleries, 108 West 57th Street, New York, on March 16, 1944. It was received by Dean Frank Luther Mott, and hung in the Conference Room of Jay H. Neff Hall, April 4, 1944. (Ref.: School of Journalism Bulletin Series 94, The University of Missouri Bulletin, volume 45, number 10)