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ID: 500019971 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500019971			Record Type: Person

Ting, Walasse (Chinese-American painter and poet, 1929-2010)

Note: Born near Shanghai, Ting later relocated to Hong Kong where he had his first exhibition. In 1953 he relocated to Paris where he adopted the name Walasse and made contact with members of the CoBrA group. He moved to New York City in 1957 where he showed a series of action paintings in 1959. He remained active in New York where he associated with both the Abstract Expressionist and Pop painters of the 1950s and 1960s. He is known for a collaborative book of poetry and images called "1¢ Life" made in 1964.

Names:
	Ting, Walasse (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Ting, Walasse (Dutch-P,NA)
	Walasse Ting (V,display)
	Ting, Wallace (V)
	Ding, Xiongquan (V)
	Ting, Wallase (V)
	丁雄泉 (U)
	Ting, Hsiung-ch'uan (U)
	טינג, ואלאס (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
	Ding Xiong Quan (U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)
	Chinese-American
	Chinese
	Dutch

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	painter
	printmaker
	graphic artist
	sculptor
	poet
	draftsman

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Shanghai (Shanghai, China) (inhabited place) Died: New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

collaborated with ....	Alechinsky, Pierre
................................	(Belgian painter, draftsman, and filmmaker, born 1927) [500027985]

collaborated with ....	Ginsberg, Allen
................................	(American poet, 1926-1997) [500330914]

colleague of ....	Appel, Karel
......................	(Dutch painter and sculptor, 1921-2006, active in Amsterdam, Paris, and New York) [500030857]

colleague of ....	Francis, Sam
......................	(American painter, 1923-1994) [500115537]

colleague of ....	Jorn, Asger
......................	(Danish painter, printmaker, and ceramicist, 1914-1973) [500007669]

colleague of ....	Mitchell, Joan
......................	(American painter, 1925-1992) [500000901]

colleague of ....	Oldenburg, Claes
......................	(American sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker, 1929-2022, born in Sweden) [500029735]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Ting, Walasse (I)

Biographies:

(Chinese-American painter and poet, 1929-2010) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American painter, b.1929) ..... [BHA]
(Oriental artist, 1929-) ..... [WCP]
(Westernised Oriental artist, born 1929) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Chinese painter, 1929-2010) ..... [IMJ]
(American artist, 1929-2010) ..... [MoMA]
(Chinese painter, 1929-2010) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

丁雄泉 ........	[GRL]
........	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 89630168

טינג, ואלאס ........	[IMJ]
......................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Ding, Xiongquan ........	[GRL, VP]
................................	Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Internationale Künstlerdatenbank (1993-2006) accessed 24 January 2008
................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 89630168

Ding Xiong Quan ........	[RKD]
...............................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 77597

Ting, Hsiung-ch'uan ........	[GRL]
........................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 89630168

Ting, Walasse ........	[BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
............................	Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Internationale Künstlerdatenbank (1993-2006) accessed 24 January 2008
............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................	askART (2000-) accessed 24 January 2008
............................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)
............................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 890164
............................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
............................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
............................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 89630168
............................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 77597

Ting, Wallace ........	[WCP Preferred]
............................	Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)

Ting, Wallase ........	[WL-Courtauld Preferred]
............................	Witt Library, Authority files

Walasse Ting ........	[GRISC, GRL, MoMA, VP]
..........................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..........................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	New York Times [online] (2000-) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/obituaries/walasse-ting-overlooked.html

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