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Artist	Chong, Fay
Title	Drydocked
Description	A black and white print of a boat in a drydock. Chong uses heavy line and shape to depict his subjects.
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 Chinese American artists. Northwest School of artists. Wood-engraving. Dry docks.
Medium/Technique	Woodcut?
Image Measurements	7 x 10 inches
Object Type	Prints
Identifier	art_C455Dr
Digital Format	image/jp2
Digitization Specifications	68,090,500 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
Source	uncat
Item Type	Artworks
Digital File Name	art_C455Dr.tif