Tyrus Wong
American
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1910/10/25 | Wong Gen Yeo (sometimes Romanized Wong Gaing Yoo) is born in a farming village in Guangdong Province. | Born | |||||
| 1920/00/00 | Seeking better economic prospects, Gen Yeo and his father embark for the United States, leaving his mother and sister behind. Gen Yeo would never see his mother again. | Life | |||||
| 1920/12/30 | After a month at sea, the Wongs arrive at Angel Island Immigration Station. The elder Mr Wong was traveling as a merchant named Look Get and his son, Tyrus, as Look Tai Yow. | Life | Angel Island, US Immigration Station | Angel Island, CA | Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) | ||
| 1921/01/27 | After his father has already been interviewed in the presence of an interpreter and a stenographer, young Gen Yeo, posing as Look Tai Yow, is interrogated by US immigration officials. Gen Yeo answers correctly. | Life | Angel Island, US Immigration Station | Angel Island, CA | Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) | ||
| 1930/00/00 | In junior high, a teacher notices Tyrus Wong's artist talents and arranges a summer scholarship to the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, now the Otis College of Art and Design. When his scholarship ended he decided not to return to junior high. | Education | |||||
| 1932/00/00 | In 1932and againin 1934, his work was included in group shows at the Art Institute of Chicago that also featured Picasso, Matisse and Paul Klee. | Artist | |||||
| 1935/00/00 | As Otis Art Institute's youngest student, Tyrus Wong attends classes there for at least five years and works as the school janitor. He graduated in the 1930s. | Education | |||||
| 1936/00/00 | From 1936 to 1938, Mr Wong works as an artist for the Works Progress Administration, creating paintings at libraries, including the Santa Monica Library (Carnegie-funded building at Santa Monica Blvd and 5th St, demolished), and other public spaces. | Artist | |||||
| 1938/00/00 | Tyrus Wong is hired by Disney Animation as an in-betweener, creating thousands of intermediate drawings needed to create animated sequences. Painstaking and repetitive, Mr Wong called it soul-numbing. | Work | |||||
| 1938/07/00 | Invoking the landscape paintings of the Song dynasty, Wong paints a series of nature scenesthat are moody, lyrical and atmospheric with backgrounds subtly suggested. Walt Disney said "I love this indefinite quality, the mysterious quality of the forest." | Artist | Bambi | ||||
| 1941/00/00 | In the wake of a bitter Disney animators' strike, Disney fires Mr Wong. Though he did not to strike. | Work | |||||
| 1941/12/00 | Like many Chinese-Americans after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Tyrus Wong, starts wearing a lapel button showing his Chinese heritage, fearful of an angry American beating him up on the street. | Life | |||||
| 1942/00/00 | Mr Wong is hired at Warner Brothers, working there and lent out on occasion to other studios (as an illustrator for Republic Studio) until his retirement in 1968. | Work | |||||
| 1942/08/08 | "Bambi" premieres in London, England | Visual Stylist | Bambi | ||||
| 1946/00/00 | Tyrus Wong becomes a United States citizen. | Life | |||||
| 1955/10/26 | "Rebel Without a Cause" is released. | Staff Artist | Rebel Without a Cause | ||||
| 1969/00/00 | "The Wild Bunch " is released. | Staff Artist | The Wild Bunch | ||||
| 2001/00/00 | In recognition of his influence on "Bambi," Mr Wong is honored as aDisney Legend by the Walt Disney Company for outstanding contributions. Previous recipients include Fred MacMurray, Julie Andrews and Annette Funicello. | Life | |||||
| 2016/12/30 | Tyrus Wong, best known for his influence on the Walt Disney animated feature "Bambi", dies at the age of 106 at his home in Sunland. | Died |
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