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1932 Long Beach, California - 2009 California. Known for: Modernist-leaning landscape to non ob and figure painting.
Credits for the following biography: http://www.bigbridge.org/Issue3/creeley/biooka.htm:. Arthur Okamura was born in Long Beach, California, February 24, 1932. He was interned at the Santa Anita Race... Read full biography
Credits for the following biography: http://www.bigbridge.org/Issue3/creeley/biooka.htm:. Arthur Okamura was born in Long Beach, California, February 24, 1932. He was interned at the Santa Anita Race Track "Assembly Center" soon after Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan, on December 1, 1941. After 6... Read full biography
Credits for the following biography: http://www.bigbridge.org/Issue3/creeley/biooka.htm:. Arthur Okamura was born in Long Beach, California, February 24, 1932. He was interned at the Santa Anita Race Track "Assembly Center" soon after Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan, on December 1, 1941. After 6 months, he and his family were transferred to Amache Relocation Center in Colorado, where they lived for three years. After the war ended in 1945, Arthur and his family relocated to Chicago, Illinois.... Read full biography
Credits for the following biography: http://www.bigbridge.org/Issue3/creeley/biooka.htm:. Arthur Okamura was born in Long Beach, California, February 24, 1932. He was interned at the Santa Anita Race Track "Assembly Center" soon after Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan, on December 1, 1941. After 6 months, he and his family were transferred to Amache Relocation Center in Colorado, where they lived for three years. After the war ended in 1945, Arthur and his family relocated to Chicago, Illinois. There he attended grammar school, high school and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was in Chicago that he got married and started off in his formative years as an artist. Arthur had always planned to be an artist and began working after... Read full biography
Credits for the following biography: http://www.bigbridge.org/Issue3/creeley/biooka.htm:. Arthur Okamura was born in Long Beach, California, February 24, 1932. He was interned at the Santa Anita Race Track "Assembly Center" soon after Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan, on December 1, 1941. After 6 months, he and his family were transferred to Amache Relocation Center in Colorado, where they lived for three years. After the war ended in 1945, Arthur and his family relocated to Chicago, Illinois. There he attended grammar school, high school and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was in Chicago that he got married and started off in his formative years as an artist. Arthur had always planned to be an artist and began working after school at a silkscreen poster studio when he was fifteen years old. He worked there for twelve years and b... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesSan Francisco and Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism
2004Landauer, Susan240 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004McGowan, Alison C (Editor)1,512 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993Bowker R R1,473 pagesViews from Asian California: An Illustrated History 1920-1965
1992Brown, Michael D71 pages (color)Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987Cummings, Paul653 pagesWho's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986Jaques Cattell Press1,292 pagesArt in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History
1985Albright, Thomas349 pages (color)San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985DuPont, Diana, K Holland402 pages (color)The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984Orr-Cahill, Christina199 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976Jaques Cattell Press756 pagesWhitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974Baur, John I H235 pages (color)Painters Behind Painters An Exhibition of Central California Artists
1967
(Exhibition catalog)Howe, Thomas C72 pages (color)Forty Artists under Forty From the Whitney Museum of American Art
1962
(Exhibition catalog)Goodrich, Lloyd/Edward Bryant48 pages (color)Art U S A Now (2 volumes)
1962Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness474 pages (color)