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
臼井文平
鈴木 盛
Suzuki Sakari was born in Iwate Prefecture and studied at the San Fancisco Art Institute in the 1920s. He moved to New York City around 1930 and studied in the Art Students League.
He died in Chicago in 1995.
角南壮一
石垣栄太郎
Eitaro Ishigaki was invited to the U.S. in 1909 by his father who had moved there previously. He lived in Seattle and Bakersfield, then San Francisco, where he met Gertrude Boyle. They moved to New York togehter in 1915. Ishigaki worked repairing furniture and umbrella handles while attending the Art Students League.
After the war he was suspected of communist activities and was deported to Japan with his wife Ayako Ishigaki in 1951. Ishigaki died in Tokyo in 1958.
Kyohei Inukai
Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi was born in Los Angeles and moved with his family to Japan in 1906. He returned to the U.S. in 1918. He studied sculpture from 1919-1920, and became a member of the National Sculpture Society in 1925.
After graduated from Columbia University in 1927 with a degree in pharmacology, he received a Guggenheim scholarship to study in France.
During WWII, Noguchi entered the Japanese American Internment camp at Poston, Arizona under his own volition in 1942, and returned to New York six months after entering the camp.
In 1985, Noguchi opened The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum (now known as The Noguchi Museum), in Long Island City, New York.
He passed away in New York in 1988.
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