Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- James Leong papers
- Dates:
- circa 1950s-1990s
- Abstract:
- The papers of abstract expressionist painter James Leong include correspondence, photographs, artwork, and other doucmentation of a working artist.
- Extent:
- 17 Linear Feet (1 Map folder, 18 flat boxes, 1 half box, and 23 manuscript boxes)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[identification of item], James Leong papers (M2387). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection includes manuscript material pertaining to the life and career of American born painter James Leong, including material relating to his childhood and early life in San Francisco's Chinatown (including rich material relating to Chinese-American life and culture); material (correspondence and personal writing) relating to a subsequent career as an artist in Norway, Rome and Seattle. Material includes: diaries, printed materials (publications and sales lists of Leong's art), a guestbook for Leong's home in Rome; slides and photos and drafts of an unpublished memoir by Leong. Also includes related material by Eugene Berman, artist and stage designer and longtime friend of Leong.
The collection also includes approximately eighty works of art by James Leong, mostly works on paper (lithograph, aquatint, silkscreen, and woodblock prints, mixed media, pastel or pencil drawings, posters), collographs on Masonite, and sketchbooks. Works date from the 1950s through the early 1990s.
- Biographical / historical:
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Born in 1929, James Leong was an American painter. After spending his childhood and early life in San Francisco's Chinatown he had a subsequent career as an artist in Norway, Rome and Seattle. He died in 2009.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Dean Leong, 2018. Accession MSS 2018-344.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2019-07-31 14:47:19 -0700 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
- Terms of access:
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While Special Collections is the owner of the physical items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish.
- Preferred citation:
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[identification of item], James Leong papers (M2387). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California.
- Location of this collection:
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Department of Special Collections, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6004, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022