CENG YOUHE (Tseng Yu-ho, Betty Ecke, 1924 – 2017). 曾佑和

Mei-Shu,

Ink on rice paper,

27.9 x 57.2cm.

Executed in 1996.

Tseng Yu-ho was born in Beijing. She was a talented art historian and educator, she married art historian Gustav Ecke in 1945. Tseng started receiving international recognition for her art in 1946, when Michael Sullivan began writing about her work. The Eckes moved to Honolulu in 1949.