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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Banyon Tree, Kapiolani Park, Oahu
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Founder of a well-known watercolor workshop in Asilomar, California,
Jade Fon became a California plein-air painter whose work
combined Oriental influences and regionalism called "California
Style." His subjects range from cityscapes to wildlife in natural
surroundings. In the art world, he was called "Jade Fon",
although his full name was Jade Fon Woo.
He was born in San
Jose, California and was raised in Winslow, Arizona and attended the
University of Arizona at Flagstaff before continuing his higher
education at the University of New Mexico. In the 1930s, he moved
back to California where he attended the Art Students League in Los
Angeles and exhibited with the California Water Color Society. He
was a movie studio scenic artist and worked on Gone With the Wind.
From
the mid-1940s, Jade Fon lived in San Francisco from where he taught at
Diablo Valley College, worked as a night club entertainer and
commercial illustrator, and founded the watercolor workshop school in
Asilomar.
He died in Bakersfield on November 14, 1983.
He was a member of several watercolor societies including the
California Watercolor Society and was also a member of the Society of
Western Artists.
Sources:
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940
Gordon McClelland and Jay Last, The California Style
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