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Artist	Chong, Fay
Title	[Cloth print]
Description	A monochromatic print on a linen handkerchief of various Northwest motifs such as the salmon, the totem pole, the Seattle skyline and a ship in a body of water (possibly Puget Sound).
Biographical Notes	Fay Chong was born in Canton, China in 1912. He worked primarily in printmaking and in watercolor. He and his family moved to Seattle in 1920. He attended Edison High School where he was a classmate of George Tsutakawa. Chong worked on the Public Works of Art Project in the 1930's with Robert Bruce Inverarity, Jacob Elshin and Julius Twohy. Chong taught art at Cornish College for the Arts, Seattle Community College, Washington Senior High School and Ingraham High School. He received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in 1968 and an MAT from the University of Washington in 1971. He died suddenly of a stroke in 1973.
Date	n.d.
Subjects (LCSH)	Arts, American -- Northwest, Pacific -- 20th century. Chong, Fay Northwest School of artists. Chinese American artists. Wood-engraving. Totem poles. Salmon. Boats and boating.
Medium/Technique	Woodcut?
Image Measurements	8 1/2 x 8 inches
Object Type	Prints
Type	Still Image
Notes from Object	On informational tag: Gift of Clara Burton (June 14, 1979, Andrew Chin)
Identifier	art_C455Cl
Digital Format	image/jp2
Digitization Specifications	91,585,668 bytes (working master file). Image capture by IO Color using a 25 mp camera (Sony A900 DSLR). Resized using Adobe Photoshop CS to 4000 pixels along the long dimension.
Contributing Institution	The Seattle Public Library
Collection	The Seattle Public Library Northwest Art Collection
Rights and Reproduction Information	For information about rights and reproduction, visit http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/rights
Digital File Name	art_C455Cl.tif