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Summer
Melody
Romantic Light
24"
x 36"
24" x 18"

Ready to Shine
Symphony
24" x 36"
36" x 30"

Veranda Etoile
36" x 30"
30" x 24"

A Moment in Light
Village Girl
30" x 30"
20" x 16"

Morning Light
Delilah
Frolic
40" x 30"
12" x 9"
60" x 48"
"Stephen Pan has been immersed in
fine art all his life. For generations. his family has been renowned in
China for artistic talent. At the age of five, his grandfather, Bo Yin
Pan, famous for calligraphy and poetry, gave him his first lesson in drawing
and painting techniques. Ironically, in spite of his close relationship with
formal Chinese traditions in art, Pan fell in love with the paintings of the
renaissance and French impressionist periods. By 13, his artwork had been
featured in a one-man show, and had won the first of a series of National Art
Excellence awards in China for his beautifully rendered oil paintings.
Born in Shanghai in 1963, Pan entered Chinese society at the height of the Red
Guard's power; the destruction of all things not purely Chinese was in
full force. Even after the Red Guard was disbanded, it was years before
China opened it's doors and welcomed outside cultural influences. Pan
began his teaching career in Shanghai at the age of 20 and found his young students
were eager to study art. His uncle sponsored his immigration to the United
States to continue his artistic career. In 1997, he was offered a position
at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco."
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