Tseng Yu-ho (曾佑和; 1924-2017), who is also known as Betty Ecke, was an artist, art historian and educator.
Acrylics and aluminum on paper mounted down on canvas signed and with one seal of the artist, 122.6 x 56.5 cmMixed media (gouache & aluminium)/paper/canvas 35.2 x 50.5 cm
She was born in Peking, China. As the daughter of an admiral,[who?] she had a privileged upbringing. Tseng started painting when she was 11, when she was bedridden for 3 months with pleurisy.[1] When she recovered, she began studying paintingwith the chief Manchu House representative Prince Pu Jin.[2] She graduated from Fu-jen University in 1942, and then pursued graduate studies in Chinese art history and Chinese literature at Fu-jen University and Peking University. She married art historian Gustav Ecke in 1945. Tseng started receiving international recognition in 1946, when Michael Sullivan began praising and writing about her work.[3]
As an artist, Tseng Yu-ho is best known for her collages created by tearing and layering colored handmade papers. She called these artworks "Dsui Hua" paintings. Seagulls from 1965, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is an example of this collage technique.[8]
Tseng Yu-ho works vary across different mediums including traditional Chinese mount-making, calligraphy, and paintings.[7] She started developing her "Dsui Hua" paintings in the early 1950s which would later become her signature style.[9] Her work would later become more abstract but would still keep a connection to the classical Chinese canon.[9]
Arnason, H. H. and Tseng Yu-Ho, Tseng Yu-Ho: Exhibition of Paintings in Watercolor-Collage, The Downtown Gallery, New York, 1960
Ecke, Tseng Yu-Ho, Chinese Folk Art in American Collections Early 15th Through 20th Centuries, China Institute in America, New York, 1976
Ecke, Tseng Yu-Ho Chinese Folk Art II: in American Collections, From Early 15th Century to Early 20th Century, University of Hawaii Press, 1977 ASIN: B00070SJ92
Nakano, Toru; Ecke, Tseng Yuho; Cahill, Suzanne, Bronze Mirrors from Ancient China: Donald H. Graham Jr. Collection, Orientations, Hong Kong, 1994 ISBN9627956015
Yuho, Tseng; Link, Howard A., The Art of Tseng Yuho, Honolulu Academy of the Arts, 1989 ISBN0937426075
Yuho, Tseng, A History of Chinese Calligraphy, The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, 1993, ISBN9622014267
Yuho, Tseng, Dsui Hua: Dsui Paintings, a Retrospective Exhibition, Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong/Taipei, 1992 ASIN: B0023X7EWY
Yu-Ho, Tseng, Some Contemporary Elements in Classical Chinese Art, University of Hawaii Press, 1963 ISBN0870228129
^ abIrene., Poon (2001). Leading the way : Asian American artists of the older generation. Wenham, Mass.: Gordon College. ISBN0970748701. OCLC47214799.
