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Young Hi Lee's Gourds in Moonlight, lucid, wispy, gray and black, watercolor paintings of gourd plants in front of the moon

Gourds in Moonlight, Young Hi Lee, 1997, sumi ink on mulberry paper mounted on silk, Gift of Dr. Kun I. Lee and Young Hi Lee, 2014.51

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Korean Art in East Asian Gallery

August 20–December 1, 2019 | Gallery 138 | Free

 

Newly on display is Gourds in Moonlight, a tryptic of three hanging scrolls, by Young Hi Lee (b. 1947) a Korean-born American artist. The painting demonstrates Lee’s dynamic brushwork and her transformation of this traditional subject into a personal and lyrical expression.