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| Edward Walter Kress was born in Ohio on Feb. 28, 1894. Kress studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He then worked in Denver, CO for a few years before moving to Oakland, CA in the 1920s. He died in Santa Clara, CA on Sept. 3, 1965. Chinatown genre was the subject of many of his watercolors.
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Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
City Directory; California Arts and Architecture list, 1932; Death Record; Interview with the artist or his/her family.
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