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Watercolor Techniques
Frederick Wong received both his B.F.A. and M.A. degrees from the University
of New Mexico on a Scholastic Magazine scholarship. His primary interest lies in
watercolor painting. Mr. Wong has taught at Pratt Institute and Hofstra University, and is
the author of The Complete Calligrapher and Oriental Watercolor Techniquesùùsubtitled
For Contemporary Painting, published by Watson-Guptill, New York. He is a member of
the American Watercolor Society and Allied Artists of America.
Mr. Wong had five one-man shows at the Mi Chou Gallery in New York. This
gallery introduced many famous Chinese artists to the New York public, including the
great master Chi Pai Shih. Mr. Wong has also exhibited at Fairleigh Dickinson
University, Lehigh University, Kenmore Galleries, Philadelphia; the Katonah Gallery,
Katonah, New York; at Soci"t" G"n"rale, the Landmark, Gloucester Tower, Hong Kong;
the Genkan Gallery, and the Tokyo-American Club, Japan.
Among many awards he won Gold Medals at the National Arts Club in 1961 and
the Ligonier Arts Festival, in 1965 and 1967; a Gold Medal in Artists in Action, Hawaii,
1960; and a Bronze Medal at the Butler Institute, 1960; five awards from the American
Watercolor Society. He is represented in numerous corporate and private collections, and
has conducted many watercolor workshops, both domestically and internationally.
Arts magazine noted: ÜWhat is international and timeless in landscape scenes?
Well, Frederick Wong has found it in these quiet, misty scenes, suggesting at once the
light and the brushwork of Gainsborough, Corot, and Monet, the philosophical overtones
of Sung scrolls and wall hangings, and the almost-but-not-quite sentimentality of Robert
Frost word-pictures.¹
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