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K. Chin 1970s Litho Print Black Bear - Adorable Artwork

Name: K. Chin 1970s Litho Print Black Bear - Adorable Artwork
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Black Bear in original frame

Vintage 1970's Litho Print 9x12

By K. Chin Artist

K. Chin 1920 - 1995

I discovered this info on K. Chin:

Biography

I have put the following together from several sources: a flyer published in the early 80's, words from his sons, and notes on the back of a K. Chin cardboard jigsaw puzzle box.

K. Chin, of Chinese ancestry, was born in Portland, Oregon in 1920, where he received his initial art training at the Portland Museum School of Art and the University of Oregon.

K. Chin, during World War II, served as a mechanical draftsman with the US Air Corps, at which time he sharpened his skill at rendering detailed images. He served for 4-1/2 years. He illustrated magazine covers for US Army, American Legion, and later, Cue Magazine and Newsweek.

K. Chin for twenty years was an advertising art director. I know he did work for at least three years for the Anacin account.

Sometime in 1950's or 1960's K. Chin was in France where he took photos which were used for some paintings at a studio he had in New York.

After his advertising career, K. Chin worked for two years with Norcross Greeting Cards, and he opened an art gallery on West 57th St. in New York where he had regular exhibits. Certainly in the 1960's and probably into the early 1970's. This gallery was very likely space within Bergdorf Goodman which has been located on Fifth Avenue between West 57th and 58th for many decades. He won several awards for his art, including the New York Art Directors Painting Award (no current information available about the history of this award). K. Chin also exhibited at the Gemini Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida, a gallery which apparently no longer exists.

K. Chin eventually opened a small wholesale business and gallery in beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. After suffering a stroke in 1985 the gallery was closed. His two sons, Randall and Scott, continue to use the business name for their wholesale business.