THE IOWA DIPLOMAT WITH 'TWO INTERESTING STORIES'

Over a 30-year career, the World Food Prize Foundation head met both President Xi Jinping and his father Xi Zhongxun - encounters that inspired a work of art

Kenneth M. Quinn has many memories from his career as a US diplomat, but two in particular stand out: The time he met Xi Zhongxun, the governor of Guangdong province, in 1980, and decades later when he met his son, President Xi Jinping.

The encounters were so special that Quinn commissioned a painting to remember them, titled Two Interesting Stories. Today, copies of the art work hang in the Iowa Gallery's Hall of Laureates and the United States embassy in Beijing.