Oral history interview with Andrew Chinn
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 46 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Chinn, Andrew, 1915-1996
label: Names
content: Chinese Art Club (Seattle, Wash.)
label: Names
content: Northwest Asian American Project
label: Names
content: Chong, Fay
label: Interviewer
content: Kangas, Matthew
label: Names
content: Tobey, Mark
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
label: Topic
content: Asian American art
label: Topic
content: Asian American artists
label: Topic
content: Asian American painters
label: Topic
content: Chinese American art
label: Topic
content: Chinese American artists
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Chinn, Andrew, 1915-1996
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Andrew Chinn (1915-1995) was a Chinese American painter based in Seattle, Washington.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 56 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1991 August 9
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.chinn91
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Transcript also available at the University of Washington, Manuscripts Collection, and at the Oregon Historical Society.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Andrew Chinn conducted 1991 August 9, by Matthew Kangas, for the Archives of American Art Northwest Asian American Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Chinn speaks of his childhood; the formation of the Chinese Art Club in Seattle in the 1930s; exhibitions of his work in the 1940s; the Chinese and Western styles of his paintings; his teaching career; his friendship with Fay Chong; and his opinion of the Asian influence in Mark Tobey's work.