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Travel in Snowing Maple Woods of the Fall: Egan's Oil Paintings 2003

2003ref. 20260415005Kaohsiung Taiwan: Self-published by Yicheng Egan Lin 2003. Hardcover. Very Good. 26 cm. Kaohsiung Taiwan: Self-published by Yicheng Egan Lin Published 2003. Hardcover 83 pp.; 26 cm; text in Chinese and English; illustrated throughout with full-color reproductions of oil paintings. In Very Good condition no dust jacket. Pale green illustrated paper over boards with red Chinese calligraphic title and brown English title on the front cover printed with a full-color reproduction of the artist's oil painting of a red-brick temple courtyard; rear cover plain pale green with a small central reproduction of the artist's watercolor sketch titled "Budejuvice Czech." Light shelf and edge wear. Binding tight; interior pages bright and clean with no markings. Inscribed by the artist in black ink on the front free endpaper: "To Merrit Chassie / Egan / Feb. 2004." Four promotional bookmarks printed with cover artwork and the artist's studio address laid in. A self-published hardcover oil painting anthology by Yicheng Egan Lin b. 1944 a Kaohsiung-based architect and painter. Born in Qishan Kaohsiung County Lin earned his B.A. in architecture from Chung Yuan Christian University 1968 and an M.A. from The Ohio State University 1974 practiced as an architect at HNTB in the United States from 1974 to 1977 and in 1977 returned to Taiwan to open his own architectural firm in Kaohsiung. He taught architectural design at Feng Chia University 1977-1984 and served as associate professor of architecture at National Cheng Kung University 1986-1995. He took up oil painting in the late 1990s with the Kaohsiung Architects Association Oil Painting Club and this volume gathers the work leading up to his 2003 solo exhibition at the Kaohsiung Cultural Center. Preface by Sun Quanwen professor of architecture at National Cheng Kung University and a longtime colleague; introductory essay "Architect and Art" by the noted Taiwanese painter Pang Jun; the artist's own essay "Travel in Snowing Maple Woods of the Fall" dated May 2003 recounts the 1974 Ohio afternoon a drive through snow-dusted yellow maple woods that gives the volume its title. Plates include Taiwanese subjects An-Pin Fortress Confucius Temple Tainan cityscape with tobacco tower Red Hall at Kaohsiung Senior High the red-mountain landscape "Dawn" fishing boats at harbor a red-roofed old house in the mountains markets and parks alongside figurative works still lifes of lilies and chrysanthemums nudes and a European travel sketch of Budejuvice Czech Republic on the rear cover. Self-published by Yicheng Egan Lin hardcover

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