Charles Albert Rogers paintings of Chinatown, San Francisco., 1901-1902

Summary

Creators:

Rogers, Charles Albert

Abstract:

Paintings of street scenes and people in San Francisco's Chinatown before the 1906 earthquake and fire.

Extent:

13 digital objects (13 images) 13 paintings : oil on board ; 18 x 12 in.

Language:

Collection materials are in English

Background

Scope and content:

Paintings of street scenes and people in San Francisco's Chinatown before the 1906 earthquake and fire.

Biographical / historical:

Biographical Information Charles Albert Rogers (1848-1918) was born in New Haven, Connecticut on February 26, 1848. He studied art in New York City for 15 years and had further training in Rome, Munich, and Paris. After 1877 he was in San Francisco where he painted portraits, landscapes, coastals, and Chinatown genre in both oil and watercolor. He exhibited at the Mark Hopkins Institute in 1898 and was active in San Francisco until the 1906 disaster. His studio at 108 Stockton Street went up in flames, taking with it 150 of his paintings, mostly scenes of the City. He then moved to Los Angeles where he exhibited at the Blanchard Bldg and Daniell Gallery, and maintained a studio in the Chamber of Commerce Bldg until about 1913. Rogers painted in Yosemite during the summer of 1911. He died in Alameda, California on April 26, 1918. Member: Painters & Sculptors of Los Angeles; California Art Club; San Francisco Art Ass'n. Exhibited: Mechanics' Institute Fair (San Francisco), 1895-99 (scenes of Fruitvale); Mark Hopkins Institute, 1897; Calif. State Fair, 1902; Alaska Yukon Exposition (Seattle), 1909 (bronze medal); Blanchard Gallery (Los Angeles), 1911; San Francisco Art Ass'n, 1916. (Source of biographical notes: Kelley Gallery, Pasadena. Derived from biographical entry by Edan Hughes.)

Rules or conventions:

Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Note:

Oil paintings dated and signed: C.A. Rogers. Each bears artist's original annotation as to location and date on back. Time of day is also noted on some works.

Sources consulted

Descriptions of some popular names for Chinatown alleys in Chapter 5 of "The Barbary Coast" by Herbert Asbury, from the online version at: http://www.webroots.org/library/usahist/tbcsfca3.html

and

Official map of "Chinatown" in San Francisco / prepared under the supervision of the special committee of the Board of Supervisors, July 1885. G4364.S5:2C45 1885.S2 [Online via the Chinese in California Project, Library of Congress site]

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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