Mai-Mai Sze

Mai-mai Sze
Portrait of Sze in 1935 by Carl Van Vechten
Born
Yuen Tsung Sze

(1909-12-02)December 2, 1909
Tianjin, China
DiedJuly 16, 1992(1992-07-16) (aged 82)
New York City, US
Alma materWellesley College
PartnerIrene Sharaff
Parents

Yuen Tsung Sze (Chinese: 施蕴珍; December 2, 1909 – July 16, 1992), known professionally as Mai-mai Sze (施美美), was a Chinese-American painter and writer. The Bollingen Foundation first published her translation of the Jieziyuan Huazhuan or The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting with her commentary in 1956.