4th of
4 works found
- Artist
- Wong, Anna
- Title
- Window 12
- Technique
- lithograph
- chine collé
- serigraph
- Date
- 1988
- Dimensions
- 66.5cm height x 51.0cm width
- Type
- Accession Number
- 2021.5.7
- Owner
- City of Burnaby
- Collection
- Permanent Collection
Gift of the Modernize Tailors Wong Family
Canadian artist and master printmaker Anna Wong (1930–2013) was born and raised in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In her teenage years and early twenties, Wong worked at her family’s business, Modernize Tailors (established in 1913), a thriving fixture in Vancouver’s Chinatown neighbourhood. After a year of studying Chinese brush painting in Hong Kong, Wong entered full-time studies at the Vancouver School of Art, graduating with a degree in creative printmaking. She went on to study, and then to teach, at the Pratt Graphics Center in New York City, where she remained on the faculty for nearly two decades. In the 1960s and 70s her original prints received numerous prizes and she represented Canada in multiple international print biennials.