Chi-Tong Yang Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1906 - d. 2003

Yang Chi-tong was born in Junliao, Feng-Yun Township, Taichung County, Taiwan on November 8th, 1906. Yang graduated from Huludun Elementary School in 1920, and was accepted by Taipei Normal High School that same year. He was deeply influenced by his teacher Ishikawa Kinichiro while attending this school. After studying for five years, he graduated in 1925. He then worked as a public school teacher at the Provincial Taichung Business Vocational School for 17 years. Later he worked at the Provincial Taichung Business Junior College as a teacher for 30 years. After teaching for almost half a century, he retired in 1967. His artwork was successively selected 10 times by "Taiwan Fine Arts Exhibitions" and "Taiwan Governmental Fine Arts Exhibitions" from 1928 to 1940. Yang’s works were also selected by Salon de Printemps in year 1960, 1963, 1964, 1969, 1980 and 1985. In 1984, Taichung Municipal Culture Center and Taipei Fine Arts Museum both held a retrospective exhibition for Yang. Other retrospective exhibitions were held by the National Museum of History in 1987 and by the Taiwan Provincial Museum of Fine Arts (now National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts) in May, 1989 when Yang was 84. Yang passed away from an illness in Taichung in 2003, at the age of 98.