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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: James Leong papers
Identifier/Call Number: M2387
Physical Description:
17 Linear Feet
(1 Map folder, 18 flat boxes, 1 half box, and 23 manuscript boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1950s-1990s
Abstract: The papers of abstract expressionist painter James Leong include correspondence, photographs, artwork, and other doucmentation
of a working artist.
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.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Dean Leong, 2018. Accession MSS 2018-344.
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.
[identification of item], James Leong papers (M2387). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, California.
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for Leong's home in Rome; slides and photos and drafts of an unpublished memoir by Leong.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.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Art, Modern -- United States.
Asian American art -- 20th century.
Chinese American artists