Note Type
Historical NoteNote
According to biographical notes on the Liang Gallery website, "Yu Peng once described himself as an ancient man from the mountains and forests who lived in the city. At the age of 22, he was able to make a living selling watercolors, sketches, ink paintings and portraits. During his career as a street painter, he developed his keen quick sense of observation. Yu Peng’s creative work came at a time when Taiwanese literature was just emerging in the Chinese-speaking world, and there were frequent exchanges between painters and literati. Thus it is that literary thinking is interwoven within the very narrative fabric of Yu Peng’s paintings. His works have been collected by the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery in Berlin, the Harvard University Art Museum, and others."