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Icon Leather Large Tote Bag
Size : 16"W x 11"H x 3 3/4"D
Artist : Hong-Oai Don (China Vietnam Artist)
This is a great bag to carry everything. One of the largest bags by Icon,
it has double leather wrapped handles with a 9” drop.
Only one side has the art framed by coordinating leather.
Artist : Hong-Oai Don
Born in Canton, China in the late 1920s, Don Hong-Oai spent most of his
life in Saigon, Vietnam where he was apprenticed as a young boy and
by his teen years he was an accomplished photographer.
His photographs are made in a unique style of photography which can be
considered Asian pictorialism, a method of adapting a Western art
for Eastern purposes. Using traditional motifs of Chinese painting,
photographers of this school used more than one negative to "create" a
beautiful picture. Realism was not a goal.
Don remained in Vietnam through the war, fleeing by boat to California in 1979,
where his work became widely collected. He passed away in 2004. |
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