Artist Hung Liu, whose striking portraits depicted life in Maoist China and the American immigrant experience, has died at age 73. Liu’s death on Saturday followed a battle with pancreatic cancer, ...

Hung Liu, Resident Alien, 1988. Oil on canvas. Collection of the San Jose Museum of Art, gift of the Lipman Family Foundation. (Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery) Liu was 73 when she died ...

Hung Liu was a contemporary Chinese painter. Widely recognized for her large, painterly depictions of traditional and contemporary Chinese women, children, and refugees in muted, earthy hues, Hung ...

The popular American immigration fantasy focuses on the positive. On the receiving end. On America’s welcoming arms for “your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Horatio ...

A career retrospective for the Oakland-based Chinese-American painter, who died on Aug. 7, opens at the National Portrait Gallery on August 27. Remembering Hung Liu, A Portraitist Who Memorialized The ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Liu was 73 when she died earlier this ...