California Asian American artists biographical survey collection, circa 1850-2007

Physical description: 25 linear feet

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SC0929		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 1 BOX 1		In-library use
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SC0929 SERIES 1 FLAT BOX 24		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 1 HALF BOX 20		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 2 BOX 1		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 2 BOX 2		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 2 BOX 3		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 2 BOX 4		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 2 BOX 5		In-library use
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SC0929 SERIES 2 BOX 7		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 2 BOX 8		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 2 BOX 9		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 2 BOX 10		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 2 BOX 11		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 3 BOX 1		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 3 BOX 2		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 4 BOX 1		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 4 BOX 2		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 4 BOX 3		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 4 BOX 4		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 4 BOX 5		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 4 BOX 6		In-library use
SC0929 SERIES 4 HALF BOX 7		In-library use

Description

Contents/Summary

Finding aid: Finding aid available online
Summary: The collection contains biographical files on more than 1000 artists active in California between 1850 and 1965, biographical files for 91 artists not active in California, and reference files. Biographical files contain exhibition records, catalogs, press coverage, and examples of art work (in the form of slides or photographs); in some cases there is also correspondence and/or interviews. Some materials may be photocopies. The reference files contain similar materials but are arranged by subject. Because of date range of the project and the nature of immigration before the 1970s, artists of Chinese and Japanese ancestry predominate in these files.

Subjects

Subjects: Asian American art > 19th century.; Asian American art > 20th century.; Asian Americans > California.

Bibliographic information

Earliest date: 1850
Latest date: 2007
Note: The California Asian American Artists Biographical Survey was begun as a project of San Francisco State University in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art; researchers at SF State, UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, Sacramento State University, and Stanford University participated in the project. The collection has been housed at Stanford since 2003 as part of the Asian American Art Project directed by Gordon H. Chang and Mark Dean Johnson. Materials gathered during the research culminated in the publication of the book ASIAN AMERICAN ART: A HISTORY, 1850-1970.
Cumulative index or finding aid: Unpublished guide available.

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