Andrew Chinn
born Seattle, Washington, 1915; died Seattle, Washington, 1996
Chinn moved between China and Seattle as a younger man, learning calligraphy and traditional Chinese painting. He settled permanently in Seattle in 1933. He enrolled at the University of Washington studying under Ambrose Patterson and Walter Isaacs. In 1941 he joined the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project and in 1945 he began a 31-year career as a technical artist at the Boeing company. In 1946 he began teaching evening classes in watercolor painting at Seattle Central Community College (originally Edison Technical School), which he continued to do for over 45 years.
[source: Oral history interview with Andrew Chinn, by Matthew Kangas, Aug. 9, 1991; Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution]
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