biografía de Anna Emilie (Helga) HONG (1889-1984)

Lugar de nacimiento: Monona County, IA

Lugar de defunción: Santa Barbara, CA

Direcciones: Seattle, WA, 1923; Los Angeles, CA; Evanston, IL; Baton Rouge, LA; Santa Barbara, CA

Profesión: Painter writer, lithographer, etcher

Estudios: Sweden; Otis AI; Iowa State Teachers Col.; Univ. Washington (B.F.A.); Columbia Univ. (M.S.); Baton Rouge AL; Calif. Sch. FA; UCLA; Acad. Grand Chaumière, Paris; Armin Hansen

Exposiciones: AIC; San Diego Mus.; MacBeth Gal. & Morton Gal., NY; College Art Soc.; Chicago Norsake Klub, 1926 (prize), 1927 (prize); California AC; Los Angeles Art Comm.; Painters of the Northwest, 1925 (prize); LACMA, 1926 (Tingle prize); San Bernardino, CA, 1926 (prize); Lousiana Art Comm.; Nat. Council State Garden Clubs, 1951 (prize); Nat. Lg. Am. Pen Women, 1958 (prize).

Asociaciones: Nat. Lg. Am. Pen Women; AAUW (state chmn., arts, 1958); Nat. Council State Garden Clubs; Calif. AC

Comentarios: Teaching: Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, 1926-32, hd. , art dept., 1939; art supervisor, San Bernardino public schools. Positions: state historian, Accredited Judges Council, 1958. Lectures: art appreciation, Los Angeles area; Am. flower arrangement, U.S. and abroad. She also judged flower shows and published a book on flower arranging. Specialty: oil, watercolor, acrylics. Author: Home Furnishing, 1935; Why Sweden Leads in Design," Am. Magazine of Art, 1933; The Art of Flower and Foliage Arrangement, 1958. WW47 cites a birth date of 1894.

Fuentes: WW47; WW59; Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 182; Hughes, Artists in California, 265; Trip and Cook, Washington State Art and Artists. "