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

Abstract/Contents

Abstract: 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.

Subject	Asian American art > 19th century
Subject	Asian American art > 20th century
Subject	Asian Americans > California

Biographical/Historical	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.
Note	Unpublished guide available.
Location	Location Finding aid available online
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/mg349vc3856
Location	Dept. of Special Collections Stanford Univ. Libraries Stanford, CA 94305

Use and reproduction: The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).

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