Wang Hui-Ming artwork collection, 1966-1992
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Overview of the Collection
- Title
- Wang Hui-Ming artwork collection
- Dates
- 1966-1992 (inclusive)19661992
- Quantity
- 17 files, (oversized flat folders)
- Collection Number
- OLPa120WHM
- Summary
- This collection contains woodblock prints by Wang Hui-Ming, as well as correspondence between Wang Hui-Ming and William Stafford.
- Repository
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Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives
Aubrey R. Watzek Library
615 S. Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR
97219
Telephone: 5037687758
Fax: 5037687282
archives@lclark.edu - Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
Historical Note
Wang Hui-Ming was a poet and visual artist who primarily resided in Amherst, Massachusetts, and created several series of woodblock prints in collaboration with other poets. Much of the information for this section comes from Hui-Ming's 1977 application for the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities Grant, which is a part of this collection. Born in Wuhu, China in 1922, Hui-Ming attended the University of Amoy (Xiamen University) from 1940-42. During World War II, Hui-Ming served as an Interpreter for the United States Army and The United States Army Air Force in the China-Burma-India Theater and in the United States. His first official publication was an English-Chinese Dictionary of Military Terms compiled during the war, which was published by the United States Army CBI Theater Training Command. After the War, Hui-Ming attended the University of Missouri, and graduated with a B.S. in 1949. In 1951, he began teaching Chinese language and literature courses at Yale University while simultaneously undertaking an M.A. at New York University, from which he graduated in 1953. Hui-Ming became a U.S. citizen in 1956 and continued teaching at Yale until 1961. From 1961-1964 Hui-Ming took up a position as the Head of the Department of Art at Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island. From 1964-1988, Hui-Ming was employed as a professor of art at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Hui-Ming was well-regarded as both a translator and poet, as well as a visual artist; he participated in over 25 individual exhibitions and 15 group exhibitions for his literary and visual work between 1958 and 1977, including appearances in the Pratt Institute Galleries, the Smithsonian Travelling Exhibition, and the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art.
Hui-Ming founded his own print-making studio, Epoh Studios, in Amherst, Massachusetts in the mid-1960s. Under the imprint of Epoh Studios, Hui-Ming collaborated regularly with other poets, putting the words of their previously unpublished poems into print form and sometimes creating illustrations of his own. He worked with many poets, including Siv Cedering Fox, James Agee, Raymond Patterson, and particularly closely with Robert Bly and William Stafford, to create these prints. He also occasionally translated English poems into Chinese, and Chinese Poems into English; one of these, the primary project for his application to the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities Grant, involved the translation of a series of poems by Mao Tse-Tung into English with accompanying commentary. Hui-Ming had previously published translations in the Yale Literary Magazine, The American Poetry Review, and The San Francisco Book Review. Hui-Ming retired from his professorship at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1988.
Content Description
Hui-Ming and William Stafford began corresponding regularly in April 1970, after poet Robert Bly connected the two. According to letters and a prospectus in the collection, beginning in 1969 Hui-Ming sought out unpublished poems from Stafford to turn into woodblock and calligraphy prints under the imprint of his workshop, Epoh Studio. Many of the early letters between Stafford and Hui-Ming relate to this artistic partnership. After the prints were made, a portion of them were re-distributed to the original poets to keep or sell as they saw fit. This collection contains a substantial amount of these redistributed prints, which vary in size and are mostly monochrome, with the exception of three hand-colored prints by Hui-Ming that were explicitly gifted to William Stafford. Almost all of the original prints in this collection date between 1970 and 1971; the collection also contains a series of reproductions of Hui-ming's prints.
William Stafford also wrote several letters of recommendation and favorable reviews of Hui-Ming's work for publication, as well as a letter of reference for Hui-Ming's 1977 application for the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities Grant, also in the collection, though the application was ultimately unsuccessful. The final correspondence between Hui-Ming and Stafford in this collection dates to April 5, 1983, and discusses Stafford's book A Glass Face in The Rain.
Use of the Collection
Preferred Citation
[item description], Wang Hui-Ming artwork collection, Lewis & Clark College Special Collections and Archives, Portland, Oregon.
Administrative Information
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Series 1: Correspondence
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Description: Letters between William Stafford and Wang Hui-MingDates: 1970-04-13-1983-04-05Container: Drawer 11, Folder 1
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Description: Wang Hui-Ming application materials for National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities grantDates: 1977-03-09-1977-04Container: Drawer 11, Folder 2
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Description: Scans of Wang Hui-Ming Photos and online materialDates: 1971-2010Container: Drawer 11, Folder 3
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Series 2: Artwork
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Description: Copy of "We Soldiers of All Nations" by James Agee printDates: 1970Container: Drawer 11, Folder 4
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Description: Copy of "Peace and Love" by Wang Hui-MingDates: 1970Container: Drawer 11, Folder 4
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Description: Copy of "Poems in Wood" author list printContainer: Drawer 11, Folder 4
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Description: Copy of title page for "The Land on the Tip of a Hair" by Wang Hui-Ming printContainer: Drawer 11, Folder 4
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Description: Copy of "Poems in Wood" author list printContainer: Drawer 11, Folder 4
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Description: Copy of translation of "Buddhist Teaching of Totality" by Garma C. C. Chang printContainer: Drawer 11, Folder 4
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Description: Copy of introduction to portfolio by Wang Hui-Ming printContainer: Drawer 11, Folder 4
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Description: Copy of "In this One Life" and "Letter From Notables" by William Stafford printContainer: Drawer 11, Folder 4
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Description: Copy of "Coyote in The Zoo" by William Stafford and Chinese translation by Wang Hui-Ming printContainer: Drawer 11, Folder 4
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Description: Scans of "A Walk in September" by Wang Hui-Ming printContainer: Drawer 11, Folder 4
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Description: "Peace" and "Love and Peace" by Wang Hui Ming PrintsContainer: Drawer 11, Folder 5
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Description: "Sayings" by William Stafford PrintsDates: 1971Container: Drawer 11, Folder 6
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Description: "Song Now" by William Stafford PrintsDates: 1971Container: Drawer 11, Folder 7
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Description: "The Coyote in the Zoo" by William Stafford PrintDates: 1970Container: Drawer 11, Folder 8
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Description: "When We Are In Love" by Robert Bly print, made for "Love and Peace" projectDates: 1970Container: Drawer 11, Folder 9
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Description: "Two Together" and "Turtle Climbing a Rock" by Robert Bly, and sayings from Tao Te Ching and Old Testament with accompanying prints by Wang Hui MingDates: 1969Container: Drawer 11, Folder 9
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Description: "Pomegranates" by Siv Cedering Fox printDates: 1971Container: Drawer 11, Folder 9
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Description: "Snow" by Linda Pastan printDates: 1971Container: Drawer 11, Folder 9
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Description: Poem by Raymond R. Patterson print with illustrationContainer: Drawer 11, Folder 9
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Description: Portfolio advertisement with accompanying printContainer: Drawer 11, Folder 9
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Description: "The Snow" by Mao Tse-tung translation by Wang Hui-MingContainer: Drawer 11, Folder 9
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Description: "In This One Life" by William Stafford PrintsDates: 1971Container: Drawer 11, Folder 10
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Description: "At The Coast" by William Stafford PrintsDates: 1971Container: Drawer 11, Folder 11
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Description: "A Walk in September" by Wang Hui-Ming PrintsContainer: Drawer 11, Folder 12
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Description: "We Soldiers of All Nations" by James Agee printsDates: 1970Container: Drawer 11, Folder 13
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Description: "Lilies of the Field" by Wang Hui-Ming printDates: 1966Container: Drawer 11, Folder 14
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Description: Colored Print of "We Soldiers of All Nations" by James AgeeDates: 1970Container: Drawer 11, Folder 15
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Description: "The Coyote in the Zoo" by William Stafford large print with translation to Chinese by Wang Hui-MingDates: 1971Container: Drawer 11, Folder 16
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Description: Large colored print "for Dorothy" by Wang Hui-MingDates: 1971Container: Drawer 11, Folder 17
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Description: Large colored print "for William Stafford" by Wang Hui-MingDates: 1971Container: Drawer 11, Folder 17
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Description: "The Toad and The Crow" by Wang Hui-Ming large printDates: 1970Container: Drawer 11, Folder 17
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