https://flic.kr/p/N575Se | Nelson A Primus - The Fortune Teller [1898] | In 1885, Nelson Primus moved from Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked and studied portrait painting, to San Francisco, California, where he lived in the city's predominantly Chinese community. Fortune Teller, a work for which he is now well known, is an example of his realistic portrayal of life in Chinatown during the end of the 19th century. In this work, with deft painterly skill, Primus depicts a red-robed…
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