Chen Yanning 陈衍宁

Chen Yanning was born in Guangzhou (Canton), Guangdong Province, in 1945. He graduated in 1965 from the Oil Painting Department of the Guangzhou Art Academy. Over the years, Chen has worked for the Guangdong Provincial Art office. In 1986, he went to the U.S.A. for further study, graduating from the Art Department of Oklahoma Municipal College in 1988.

Long March diary, 1974

Chen is specialized in oil painting and has participated in exhibitions in China and in Paris, France, where the painting below was shown (1982).

A new doctor in the fishing harbor, 1975


Sources:
Michael Sullivan, Modern Chinese Artists -- A Biographical Dictionary (Berkeley, etc: University of California Press, 2006)
Tao Yongbai (ed.), 中国油画 1700-1985 [Oil Painting in China] (Nanjing: Jiangsu meishu chubanshe, 1993)
Zhongguo meishuguan (ed.), 中国美术年鉴 1949-1989 (Guilin: Guangxi meishu chubanshe, 1993)

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