Artist

Wong, Anna

Title

Cave 446 (Part of Mural From Cave in Tang Huang)

Technique

lithograph

serigraph

Date

1980

Dimensions

55.9cm height x 81.3cm width

Type

print

Accession Number

2014.15.1

Owner

City of Burnaby

Collection

Permanent Collection

Gift of the estate of the artist

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.