Artist	Chong, Fay
Title	[Wood pile]
Description	A black and white print of a pile of wood shown in a heap outside of a house or barn. Chong uses filled in and textured geometric shapes to depict his subject.
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	1949
Decade	1940-1949
Subjects (LCSH)	Arts, American -- Northwest, Pacific -- 20th century. Chong, Fay Northwest School of artists. Chinese American artists. Linoleum-block printing. Barns. Fuelwood.
Medium/Technique	Linocut
Image Measurements	7 x 10 inches
Object Type	Prints
Identifier	art_C455Wo
Digital Format	image/jp2
Digitization Specifications	68,977,196 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
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Item Type	Artworks