Entrance,watercolor, signed lower right.
Mary Augusta Mullikin was an American painter who spent almost 30 years in China from 1920 to the end of World War II. Member of the American Federation of Art. Joint author with Anna Hotchkis, also a painter, of two books of their travels in China, illustrated by themselves, entitled Buddhist Sculptures of the Yun Kang Caves (Librairie fran‡aise, Peiping, 1935) and The Nine Sacred Mountains of China (Vetch and Lee, Hong Kong, 1973). She also contributed to the National Geographic Magazine a number of articles accompanied by her drawings, including "China's Great Wall of Sculpture" in the March 1938 National Geographic (pp 313?348) on the earliest Buddhist sculptures in what were known as the Yun Kang caves, and "T…i Shan, Sacred Mountain of the East" in June 1945. Her paintings and drawings were also featured in exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. and at the Philadelphia Academy, as well as in the Brook Street Galleries in London and numerous exhibitions in China.
Overall size: 21 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.
Sight size: 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.