自20世纪30年代末起,随着中国进入全球反法西斯战争,中国和美国之间的文化艺术交流进入全新的时代。在欧洲旅行的中国知名人物画家杨令茀(1978在北加州去世)辗转来到美国,定居加州。张书(1957年在旧金山去世)则肩负“艺术外交”使命,受中国政府委托创作巨幅《百鸽图》赠送罗斯福祝贺他连任美国总统,并去美国和加拿大的近二十个知名的博物馆和美术馆举办画展,在旧金山定居,成为20世纪上半叶 Since the late 1930s, as China entered the global anti-Fascist war, the exchange of arts and culture between China and the United States has entered a completely new era. Yang Lingtao, a famous Chinese figure painter who traveled in Europe (died in Northern California in 1978), traveled to the United States to settle in California. Zhang Shu (died in 1957 in San Francisco) shouldered the mission of “art diplomacy” and was entrusted by the Chinese government to create a huge “pigeon map.” He presented Roosevelt with congratulations on his reelection as president of the United States and nearly 20 well-known American and Canadian Museums and art galleries held in San Francisco, settled in San Francisco, becoming the first half of the 20th century