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In December 1941, the residents were moved to the Stanley Internment Camp and the property occupied by the Japanese. After the war, Stanley became once again a mission center, and a refuge after China expelled missionaries in 1949. [2] The Stanley House was declared “a cultural asset” by the Hong Kong government in the 1990s. [2]
He is widely remembered as "Mayor Art," the host of a live children's show, featuring "Popeye" cartoons, that aired weekday afternoons on KRON-TV [3] in San Francisco beginning in 1959 through 1966. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Dressed in a top hat and a morning coat , [ 6 ] he addressed his live audience of attendant children, who wore similar top hats ...
The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th-century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward ...
Near Fisherman's Wharf: San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery: Art: Contemporary art, three locations in San Francisco San Francisco Fire Department Museum: Firefighting: website: San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park: Maritime: Includes a fleet of historic vessels, a visitor center, a maritime museum and a library/research facility
Martin Wong was born in Portland, Oregon, on July 11, 1946, the only child of Florence (born Jan Yuet Ah) and Anthony Victor Wong. [3] Florence, also born in Portland, was the daughter of a jewelry store owner from Guangzhou, and was raised in the Chinese city following her birth before returning to Oregon in 1940 to avoid the Japanese occupation. [3]
V.C. Morris Store, 140 Maiden Lane, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA - Images in the Library of Congress; V. C. Morris gift Shop at "Wright on the Web."; Wright as an educator / Aaron Green and Lloyd Wright - radio program produced by Bruce Rodde for Pacifica Radio, in which "Reese Palley describes how San Francisco hippies volunteered to help reconstruct Wright's V.C. Morris Gift Shop."
His work can also be seen in the permanent collections of Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Microsoft Collection, the Cosmopolitan Hotel Group (NV), the Royal Family (Dubai, UAE), and The Standard Hotel (Andre Balazs Group), among others. In August 2014, Matsuyama was awarded the Harbour City Gallery Public Art Commission in Hong Kong.
Fraenkel Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in San Francisco [2] [3] founded by Jeffrey Fraenkel in 1979. Daphne Palmer is president of the gallery. [4]Fraenkel Gallery has presented more than 350 exhibitions, with a focus on photography and its relation to other arts including painting, drawing, sculpture, and video.