Hung Liu: Happy and Gay

American artist Hung Liu (1948 – 2021) created a series of paintings and works on paper titled Happy and Gay, a fascinating and little-studied series comprising oils on canvas with installation elements and works on paper and based on Maoist propaganda cartoons published during the 1950s and 1960s in small booklets for children in China. The student-curated exhibition culminates an Art History/Museum Studies seminar at Georgetown focused on Hung Liu’s life and work taught by Dr. Dorothy Moss, former Smithsonian curator and Director of the Hung Liu Estate.