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Jake Lee

Jake Lee (1915 - 1991) was active/lived in California.  Jake Lee is known for Watercolor scene painting, townscape, and harbors, illustration.

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"Jake Lee and Chinese American History"
by Gordon H. Chang?(Essay excerpt from the catalog Finding Jake Lee: The Paintings at Kan's.)

Though there is much still to learn about the history of Chinese America, Jake Lee is emerging as the visual chronicler of the Chinese American past.  No other artist, of any background, has presented that history as richly and as evocatively as Lee did in his many, striking compositions.  Completed over a lifetime of work, Lee's paintings of historical sites, moments, and experiences give us an artistic vision that moves us, excites us, and intrigues us to this day. We see his paintings and we want to know more!

For much of his life, Lee was known primarily as a commercial artist who completed arresting illustrations for travel magazines, greeting cards, and book jackets.  He was an art teacher, with many students who learned the use of water-soluble pigments to depict the many landscapes of mid-20th century Califo   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6941 characters.]  Artist bio

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Jake Lee available:    Harold Gretzner,  Charles Payzant,  Ralph Hulett,  Wayne La Com,  Arthur Beaumont,  Jade Fon,  George Gibson,  Kenneth George Potter,  Dorothy Sklar,  George Booth Root Post,  Phil Dike,  Dedrick Brandes Stuber,  Rex Elson (Rexford) Brandt,  James March Phillips,  Joe Gleason,  Maurice George Logan,  Donna Schuster,  Emil Kosa Jr,  Mischa (Maurice) Askenazy,  Roi Colman,  William Griffith,  Angel De Service Espoy,  Alice Brown Chittenden,  Aaron Kilpatrick



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Sweeping View of Fisherman's Wharf and the Golden Gate Bridge

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Building the Intercontinental Railroad through the Sierra Nevada Range

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Workers mining for gold

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Shoe shop- Chinatown

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Embarcadero, San Francisco

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Shrimp camp

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