ZHONG CHENG

Born in Guangdong, China. Yun immigrated to USA at the age of 15 and entered the California School of Fine Art to study painting with the famous watercolorist Otis Oldfield　in 1924. He held his first solo exhibition at The Modern Gallery, San Francisco in 1926, where he met his first patrons, the Prince & Princess Achilles Murat, who encouraged him to go to France. And soon Yun became well-known for his avant-garde style and was highly praised by art critics and collectors for his combination of Western painting with Chinese themes. In 1932,Gee was invited to participate in the exhibition "Murals by American Painters and Photographers". He passed away at the age of 57 in New York. In 1968, the Robert Scholkopf Gallery in New York held a retrospective of his works, reviving Gee's memory after he had been forgotten for many years.