Artist	Chong, Fay
Title	Haircut
Description	A black and white print of depicting three figures, one of which is receiving a hair cut. Chong uses rather spare line and shape to evoke the scene. Sketched in Hooverville, Seattle. (As Chong worked for the Public Works of Art Project in the 1930's, this may have been sketched during that period and translated into print form later).
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	1968
Decade	1960-1969
Subjects (LCSH)	Arts, American -- Northwest, Pacific -- 20th century. Chong, Fay Chinese American artists. Northwest School of artists. Wood-engraving. Haircutting.
Medium/Technique	Woodcut?
Image Measurements	6 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches
Object Type	Prints
Notes from Object	Sketched in Hooverville, Seattle
Identifier	art_C455Ha
Digital Format	image/jp2
Digitization Specifications	85,176,960 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