Miki McCrossen Hayakawa - Artist Info

About Miki McCrossen Hayakawa

  • Biography

    Miki Hayakawa was a painter in California and New Mexico of portraits and still lifes and was much influenced by the work of French artist Paul Cezanne.

    Born in Memuro, Hokkaido, Japan, she was the daughter of a Japanese Consul. In 1908 she arrived with her mother, Chiyo Hayakawa, to the San Francisco Bay area where they joined the father, Man Hayakawa. She defied the wishes and traditions of her father, a pastor, and left home as a teen-ager to become an artist. Earning scholarships, she received her formal art training at the California School of Fine Arts, where she won honorable mentions, and the California College of Arts and Crafts in Berkeley.

    She lived in the Bay Area---Alameda, San F...

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