David Wu Ject-key

David Wu Ject-key was a Chinese-American painter born in Zhongshan, Guangdong province.

Legacy

A number of awards have been named after David and Elsie, including The Elsie & David Wu Ject-Key Memorial Award at the 152nd Annual International Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society, The D.Wu / Elsie Ject-Key & Marion de Sola Mendes Memorial Award for Drawing of the National Association of Women Artists, Inc, The Elsie-Ject Key Award of the National Society of Painters in Acrylic, and The D.Wu & Elsie Ject-Key Memorial Award of the Salmagundi Club in New York City.

Personal life

David Wu was married to Danish painter Elsie Kjaersgaard.
At the time of David Wu’s death, Elsie asked a friend and member of the Chung Shan Association, a group that David had helped form many years earlier: “Is this cemetery only for the men of the Chung Shan Association?” The reply: “It is a cemetery for Chinese people, and you are one of us.”