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The Lure of Chinatown:Painting California's Chinese Communities
Bowers Museum features paintings on California's Chinese communities, showing their changes over several decades.
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Artists have a long tradition of traveling to far flung lands in search of revelation and artistic breakthrough. What happens when there is such a place right in your midst, yet completely foreign? The unique cultural customs, fascinating architecture, and rich aesthetic of the Chinese communities in San Francisco and Los Angeles inspired many 19th and 20th century artists.
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