Kenjiro Nomura American Modernist : : an Issei Artist's Journey
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Foreword / by Gail M. Nomura -- Museum Foreword / by Lindsey Echelbarger -- Introduction -- 1: The immigrant -- 2: The artist -- 3: The wartime prisoner -- 4: The new citizen -- Bridges to modernism: the art of Kenjiro Nomura / by David F. Martin
"Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist: An Issei Artist’s Journey features the Japanese American artist’s work throughout his life from his early works focusing on Seattle’s urban environment and rural Northwest landscapes, to paintings and drawings capturing his life in World War II internment camps, and post-war abstractions fully demonstrating Nomura’s artistic stylistic and professional growth. Born in Japan in 1896, Kenjiro Nomura came to the United States with his parents at the age of ten. On his own by sixteen, painting became a constant throughout his life as he experienced not only major artistic recognition but also business success and failure, racism and wartime incarceration, and, at last, American citizenship. The peak of his artistic success was the 1930s, when his paintings represented the Northwest in New York, Washington, DC, and the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. Incarcerated during World War II along with 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast, he continued to paint, leaving a record of his experience in more than one hundred paintings and drawings from his time in the Puyallup detention facility and Minidoka confinement camp. Despite crippling challenges after World War II including the suicide of his wife, he resumed painting, developed a new abstract artistic style, and once again gained recognition—the only one of his prewar colleagues to do so. He fulfilled a long-held goal to become a citizen after a federal law barring citizenship to Asian immigrants was voided." -- from Cascadia Art Museum.
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PUBLISHED
[Edmonds, Washington] : Cascadia Art Museum, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: 171 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780998911236
0998911232
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Martin, David F. 1953-
Nomura, Gail M.,
Cascadia Art Museum,
SUBJECTS
Nomura, Kenjiro, -- 1896-1956 -- Exhibitions
Nomura, Kenjiro, -- 1896-1956 -- Criticism and interpretation
Japanese American painters -- Washington (State) -- Exhibitions.
Japanese American art -- Exhibitions.
Painters -- United States -- Exhibitions.