The Hiroshima Maidens (1950s)
Hoshina Seki (1941- )
Iwao Yamawaki (1898–1987)
Yoshikazu Uchida (1885–1972)
Lecture on Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Life and Work in New York by Prof. Shun Ito, Okayama University
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889–1953) was a Japanese-born modern artist who built his career in the United States and became one of the most highly regarded painters working in New York during the first half of the twentieth century. His development and success were shaped not only by his talent, but also by American art schools, teachers, […]
Kuro Murase (1880-1947)
Kuro Murase (1880-1947) was a Japanese American physician who was born in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan in 1880. He earned a doctorate from Ngoya University Medical Graduate School.
He immigrated to the U.S. sometime around 1911, where he pursued further education in ophthalmology at Bellevue Hospital.
Leo Amino (1911-1989)
Japanese American sculptor Leo Amino (1911-1989) was born in Taiwan and educated in Tokyo. He immigrated to the U.S. as a young man in 1929, where he attended San Mateo Junior College before anti-Japanese sentiment moved him to cross the country to New York in 1935.
He is the first American artist to use plastics as a principal material of sculptural composition, and the innovator of cast plastics in American sculpture.
The only Asian American artist to teach on faculty in the history of the Summer Art Sessions at Black Mountain College, he is also one of few artists of Asian descent to gain this level of national exposure in the first half of the 20th century.
Seabrook Farms
Test Off Canvas Artifact
Takeo Shiota (1881-1943)
Takeo Shiota was a Japanese American landscape architect best known for his design of the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the rooftop garden at the Hotel Astor.