Heading: (1939 WPA artist's Chinatown etching, framed)
Author: Suzanne Scheuer
Title: 1939 Chinatown etching, framed
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Date Published: 1939
Description:

Etching of a Chinese man with two children, one, a girl, sitting on his lap, and another, a boy, leaning on his back. Signed "S.Scheuer '39". Matted with visible 7 x 9.5" image, in 10.5 x 13.25" period frame.

Born in San Jose in 1898, Scheuer moved to San Francisco at age 20 to study at the California College of Arts and Crafts, working as a public school teacher to support her art work. During the Depression, in 1933, she was one of 16 San Francisco artists commissioned by the forerunner of the New Deal WPA to paint the murals in the interior of Coit Tower. In 1937, she received other WPA commissions to paint post office murals in Berkeley and in Texas. It was during this time that she also produced a series of etchings of Chinatown scenes; her 1938 "Chinatown Playground" etchings are now held by the DeYoung Museum. The sensitive 1939 study of father and children offered here was probably a sequel to that work. After teaching college in Stockton, while continuing to paint and sculpt, Scheuer moved to Santa Cruz, where she died in 1984.

Very good.