An abstract colored woodblock print in 8 colors by Seong (Eddy) Moy, titled "Floating Island", produced in 1966, titled lower left, edition size (#193/200) lower middle, signed lower right, size: 10 in. x 34 in. sight, framed to 14 1/2 in. x 37 1/2 in., very good condition, mild toning, not examined out of frame. Seong (Eddy) Moy, was an influential modernist Artist and Educator. Although he became an accomplished painter in the 1940s, his reputation today rests chiefly upon his printmaking. He is considered an innovator of technique and vision in his graphic works which were developed over a period of nearly five decades.Born in China in 1921, Moy immigrated to the United States at the age of 11, settling near family members in Minnesota. He began his art studies at the WPA Federated Art Project during the Great Depression. He continued his education in Minnesota at the St. Paul School of Art and the Walker Art Center. He won a scholarship to attend the Art Students League in New York in 1941 where he studied painting under Vaclav Vytlacil and print making with Will Barnet. He later received another scholarship to study at the Hans Hofmann School of Art. He would eventually become a major member of the art colony in Provincetown, MA.During WWII, Moy put his studies on hold and enlisted in the Air Force. He served as an aerial reconnaissance photographer in the 14th Air Force (“Flying Tigers”) in the China and Southeast Asia theaters. After the war, he resumed his studies at the Art Students League on the G.I. Bill where he studied with Cameron Booth. At that time, Booth, along with Hofmann, was considered one of the few major teachers of modernist art techniques. Moy started making prints after receiving a fellowship to work at Stanley William Hayter's graphic art workshop, “Atelier 17”. This famous workshop was founded in Paris in 1927, but moved to New York in 1940. In New York it became a thriving center for the development of new techniques and thinking towards printmaking; becoming home to many avant-garde artists of the era, including: Joan Miro, Marc Chagall, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Boris Margo, and Willem de Kooning, some of whom also shared a Provincetown connection Moy. Moy died at the age of 92 in New York.