Tomizo Thomas Nagai
Born in Gunma, Japan, Nagaai Tomizo studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League in New York City from 1924 to 1927.
Seisho Hamachi
Shimotori Yukihiko in New York: A Formative Decade Abroad
Noboru Fujioka
Kiyoshi Shimizu
Toshi Shimizu
Torajiro Watanabe
Chuzo Tamotzu
Born in Kagoshima Prefecture, Tamotzu Chuzo moved to Tokyo after graduating high school to study art with a private tutor while also studying politics and economics at Senshu University.
In 1914 he left Japan on a cargo ship and traveled around Asia and Europe before arriving in New York in 1920.
Tamotzu studied at the Art Students League and exhibited at a number of art societies from 1924-1940.
After the war started, he issued a statement of allegiance to the United States in the Committee of the Japanese Artists Resident in New York City. He was sent to Southeast Asia as a military painter for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during the war. After the war, he moved to Santa Fe, where he died in 1975.
Gozo Kawamura
Bumpei Usui
