Chinatown, San Francisco

Artist George Leslie Hunter (Rothesay, Bute, Scotland, 1877 - 1931)

Datec.1900-1906

Mediumpencil ink crayon and wash

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsSight Size: Height: 23.5 cm, Width: 19.9 cm
Frame: Height: 41 cm, Width: 37.8 cm, Depth: 1.7 cm

AcquisitionThe Hyslop Collection Bequest, 1993.

CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG010725

Keywords

Townscape

About MeHunter was born in Rothesay in 1877 but in 1892 he moved with his family to California. He was in Paris from 1904-5 when the great Post-Impressionist Exhibition took place. The pictures which he saw there were to have a profound effect on his work which, up till then, had consisted mainly of illustrations for various periodicals and magazines.

Hunter lost almost all of his work as a result of the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 and this proved to be the final impetus for him to leave California and settle in Europe.