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Jade Fon

Jade (Woo) Fon (1911 - 1983) was active/lived in California.  Jade Fon is known for Town-harborscape, animal and genre painting, teaching.

Founder of a well-known watercolor workshop in Asilomar, California, Jade Fon  became a California plein-air* painter whose work combined Oriental influences and regionalism called "California Style*."  His subjects range from cityscapes to wildlife in natural surroundings.  In the art world, he was called "Jade Fon", although his full name was Jade Fon Woo.

He was born in San Jose, California and was raised in Winslow, Arizona and attended the University of Arizona at Flagstaff before continuing his higher education at the University of New Mexico.  In the 1930s, he moved back to California where he attended the Art Students League in Los Angeles and exhibited with the California Water Color Society*.  He was a movie studio scenic artist and worked on Gone With the Wind.

From the mid-1940s, Jade Fon lived in San Francisco from where he taught at Diablo Valley College, worked as a night club entertainer and commercial illustr   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2860 characters.]  Artist bio

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