Kenjiro Nomura American modernist : an Issei artist's journey

Author/Creator:

Johns, Barbara, 1942- author

Publication/Creation:

[Edmonds, Washington] : Cascadia Art Museum, [2021]

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Kenjiro Nomura American modernist : an Issei artist's journey / Barbara Johns ; foreword by Gail M. Nomura ; contribution by David F. Martin

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Additional Author/Creators:

Martin, David F. (David Francis), 1953-, curator
Nomura, Gail M., author of foreword
Cascadia Art Museum, host institution

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Japanese American painters--Washington (State)--Exhibitions
Japanese American art--Exhibitions
Painters--United States--Exhibitions

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

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

Summary:

"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.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xi, 171 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937402271402486

ISBN:

9780998911236
0998911232

OCLC Number:

1285722487

Barcode:

010003484148