 Teng Hiok Chiu is primarily known as Teng-Hiok Chiu
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Teng-Hiok Chiu was born in China on April 27, 1903. Chiu had lived on four continents by age 30. He studied art in Boston at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, continued in Paris at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and in London at the Royal Academy. At the onset of WWII he sought refuge in the U.S. and worked mainly in Vermont. He died in Glastonburry, Connecticut in 1972. Retrospectives of his work were held at the Frye Museum in Seattle in 2003 and Fullerton Museum at California State University at Fullerton in 2007.
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Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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Biography from Wendt Gallery:
| Chiu Ten Hiok (1903 -1972)
He was a Chinese southeast Asian artist who was one of the first generation of Western-trained artists after the opening of Chinese ports to foreigners after the First World War. The son of tea merchants, Ten was sent abroad to get his education, first in the United States and later in Europe. He studied at Harvard University, The Ecole des Beaux Arts, and the Royal Academy of Arts.
After the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in the 1930s, Ten moved to Bali, where he was greatly influenced by the work of the French Impressionists, notably Paul Gauguin. However, rather than depicting his new home as exotic or primitive, Ten focused on the harmony of humanity and nature and focused on them being one. Later, Ten moved to New York, where he befriended the late Georgia O’Keefe, and even traveled to New Mexico to paint with her once she departed. In 1942 he mounted his first solo southeast asian art exhibition at the Knoedler Gallery in New York City, and he and his southeast Asian artwork were subsequently featured in Esquire Magazine.
Chiu’s paintings display remarkable flatness and their interplay of carefully designed spaces, usually divided with horizontal demarcations, seek to create a harmony of beautiful spaces. One can find in Chiu’s paintings such qualities as an effort to create pure pictorial synthesis, a clear reverence for landscape, the retreat into unpeopled spaces, and above all a powerful commune with nature, seen as peaceful and serene. Chiu Ten Hiok passed in Connecticut in 1972. |
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