CALIFORNIA MID-CENTURY: Charles Wong
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Charles Wong, Bull Service, c. 1950, Vintage gelatin silver print, 8" x 10". Artist's credit stamped on verso. Numbered in pencil on verso. Matted. Provenance: Estate of Nata Piaskowski.
Artist Biography: Charles Wong first enrolled at the CSFA to study commercial art, but his education was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. After serving in the Army Air Corps, he returned to the CSFA, this time in the photography program. In 1951 he became the first photographer to receive the Bender Grant-in-Aid, a yearly award given to young promising artists in San Francisco. The award enabled him to create his photographic essay, Year of the Dragon, a depiction in photographs and text of the interplay between Asian and Western cultures among San Francisco’s Chinese Americans. He portrayed the desire of Chinese Americans, “to preserve an ancient culture so that their children might enjoy the essence of its goodness…together with the best of western culture.”
Education: California School of Fine Arts, 1949–1951.
Awards/Honors: Life Contest for Young Photographers, Honorable Mention, 1951. Albert M. Bender Grant-inAid Award in Photography, California School of Fine Arts, 1951–1952.
Selected Exhibitions: Perceptions, San Francisco Museum of Art, August–September 1954. Creative Photography 1956, University of Kentucky Art Gallery (organized by the Lexington Camera Club), Lexington, 1956. Charles Wong, George Eastman House Study Room, Rochester, New York, May 1956. “Subjektive Fotografie”: Images of the 50’s, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (and traveling), December 1984–February 1985.
Selected Collections: George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany. Selected Publications: Melton Ferris, “The Year of the Dragon.” San Francisco Chronicle (Panorama), 1 October 1952, p. 19. “Photographs:1952/Year of the Dragon,” Aperture 2:1, 1953, p. 4-12. Aperture 2:4, 1954, p. 26. Aperture, 4:1, 1956, p. 18, U.S. Camera August 1954, p. 76. (source: Paul Hertzmann)
Artist Biography: Charles Wong first enrolled at the CSFA to study commercial art, but his education was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. After serving in the Army Air Corps, he returned to the CSFA, this time in the photography program. In 1951 he became the first photographer to receive the Bender Grant-in-Aid, a yearly award given to young promising artists in San Francisco. The award enabled him to create his photographic essay, Year of the Dragon, a depiction in photographs and text of the interplay between Asian and Western cultures among San Francisco’s Chinese Americans. He portrayed the desire of Chinese Americans, “to preserve an ancient culture so that their children might enjoy the essence of its goodness…together with the best of western culture.”
Education: California School of Fine Arts, 1949–1951.
Awards/Honors: Life Contest for Young Photographers, Honorable Mention, 1951. Albert M. Bender Grant-inAid Award in Photography, California School of Fine Arts, 1951–1952.
Selected Exhibitions: Perceptions, San Francisco Museum of Art, August–September 1954. Creative Photography 1956, University of Kentucky Art Gallery (organized by the Lexington Camera Club), Lexington, 1956. Charles Wong, George Eastman House Study Room, Rochester, New York, May 1956. “Subjektive Fotografie”: Images of the 50’s, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (and traveling), December 1984–February 1985.
Selected Collections: George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany. Selected Publications: Melton Ferris, “The Year of the Dragon.” San Francisco Chronicle (Panorama), 1 October 1952, p. 19. “Photographs:1952/Year of the Dragon,” Aperture 2:1, 1953, p. 4-12. Aperture 2:4, 1954, p. 26. Aperture, 4:1, 1956, p. 18, U.S. Camera August 1954, p. 76. (source: Paul Hertzmann)
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CALIFORNIA MID-CENTURY: Charles Wong
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