Friday, August 21, 2020

Jake Lee paintings from Kan's Restaurant will be reunited!

Jake Lee produced twelve paintings for Kan's Restaurant in San Francisco. Four paintings from a private collector will be purchased by the Chinese Historical Society of America which owns the other eight paintings. You can contribute to CHSA's purchase at its gofundme page.

Sue Lee video interview with David Perry, August 17, 2020. She talks about Jake and Kan's.

Here are the twelve paintings from the 2011 "Finding Jake Lee" catalog.

 

Lantern Making in San Francisco

 
Miners in Mother Lode Country
 

Shrimp Camp at China Camp

Shoemakers in Massachusetts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chinese Opera House in San Francisco

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chinese New Year Celebration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pig Roasting in Nevada City

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Champion Firehose Team of Deadwood, South Dakota

Vineyard Workers in Sonoma County

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cigar Makers in San Francisco

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laborers Working on Central Pacific Railroad

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Immigrants Disembarking Ship


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A set of postcards was produced. Below are four of twelve numbered postcards. The number is in postage stamp box.

#3 Lantern Making, San Francisco


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#4 Laborers Working on Central Pacific Railroad

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 #9 Chinese Opera House, San Francisco















 
#11 Chinese New Year Celebration, San Francisco

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Related Posts
Jake Lee in Ford Times
Jake Lee in Westways Magazine
Jake Lee Illustrator
Jake Lee, San Francisco Chinatown, 1961
Jake Lee Watercolor
In Search of Jake Lee

(Next post on Friday: Mabel Ping-hua Lee)

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