Sunday, August 27, 2017

New Deal Tugboat Art (1/5): "B-20, Tugboats in San Francisco Bay"

Above: "B-20, Tugboats in San Francisco Bay," a watercolor by Dong Kingman (1911-2000) created while he was in the WPA's art program, ca. 1942. While studying art and improving his skills in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Kingman "worked at various jobs, from factory work to employment as a houseboy for a San Francisco family." The WPA offered Kingman one of his earliest opportunities to excel, and he went on to become a prolific artist. His work was eventually sought out by Hollywood and popular magazines (see Kingman's biography here). Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

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