Chinese Restaurant

Painting

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Name/Title

Chinese Restaurant

Entry/Object ID

2015.1

Type of Painting

Easel

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil on canvas, Oil, Canvas

Category

American Art, 1800 to 1945

Acquisition

Accession

2015.1

Source or Donor

Jason Schoen, Crocker Art Museum Purchase

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Credit Line

Crocker Art Museum purchase made possible by Louise and Victor Graf with contributions from Simon K. Chiu, Denise and Donald Timmons, Nancy Lawrence and Gordon Klein, Linda Lawrence, Anne and Malcolm McHenry, Janet Mohle-Boetani and Mark Manasse, Marcy Friedman, Nancy and Dennis Marks, and Eleanor Matranga

Notes

Crocker Art Museum purchase made possible by Louise and Victor Graf with contributions from Simon K. Chiu, Denise and Donald Timmons, Nancy Lawrence and Gordon Klein, Linda Lawrence, Anne and Malcolm McHenry, Janet Mohle-Boetani and Mark Manasse, Marcy Friedman, Nancy and Dennis Marks, and Eleanor Matranga

Made/Created

Artist

Theodore Wores

Date made

1884

Time Period

19th Century

Place

Location

America, North America

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Web-Tag-California Artists, Web-Tag-Music

Dimensions

Height

32-1/2 in

Width

22 in

Location

Category

Display

Category

Display

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Website Medium

Label

Oil on canvas

General Notes

Note Type

Historical Note

Note

A native San Franciscan, Wores studied at the California School of Design and then at the Munich Royal Academy. He loved what he perceived to be exotic people and locales. Over the course of his long career, in addition to scenes of California, he depicted Japan, England, Hawaii, Samoa, and Spain. In 1880, upon his return to San Francisco after training abroad, Wores began to sketch and paint in the city's Chinatown. The colorful, picturesque scenes he produced of the area's people, markets, and architecture countered perceptions held by most San Franciscans that the area was unsavory, and even unsafe, for non-Chinese visitors. He painted this work when he was just 24 years old.