Title:

Chinatown, San Francisco

Creator/Contributor:

Rogers, Charles Albert, 1848-1918, creator

1: In Gum Gook Alley, May 1901 [Possibly Com Coak Alley, also known as Sullivan's Alley, between Jackson and Pacific Streets.] -- 2: Opium Den, Rag Picker's Alley, 1901 [Probably off Washington Street, near Kearny Street, and also known as the "Devil's Kitchen".] -- 3: Chinese Carpenter at Work, St. Louis Alley, 1901 -- 4: The Vegetable Seller at Rag Picker's Alley, 1901 [Probably off Washington Street, near Kearny Street, and also known as the "Devil's Kitchen".] -- 5: Rag Picker's Alley, 1901 [Probably off Washington Street, near Kearny Street, and also known as the "Devil's Kitchen".] -- 6: Entrance to Chinese Joss House Orrida Alley, 1901 [Possibly Oneida Place, off of Jackson Street, although there was no Joss House entrance there as of 1885. There were two Joss Houses off of Brooklyn Place, a few yards from Oneida Place.] -- 7: In Rag Pickers Alley, 1901 [Probably off Washington Street, near Kearny Street, and also known as the "Devil's Kitchen".] -- 8: Chinese Doorway on Pacific Street, 1901 -- 9: Sam Kee's Repair Shop, 1901 -- 10: Chinese Dwelling in Baker's Alley, 1902 [Not located on 1885 Chinatown map.] -- 11: Church Alley, 1902 [Probably Church Court, off Washington Street.] -- 12: Chinese Kitchen/St. Louis Alley, 1902 [Off Jackson Street.] -- 13: Doorway at #22 Bartlett Alley, 1902 [Also known as Lozier Street, running between Jackson and Pacific Streets.]

Date:

1901-1902 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca

Chinese -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works

Chinois -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Ouvrages illustrés

Chinese

Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works

California -- San Francisco

California -- San Francisco -- Chinatown

13 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.

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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.)

Type:

graphic

Pictorial works.

Oil paintings.

painting

13 paintings : oil on board ; 18 x 12 in.

English

Origin:

California

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