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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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Art Method
- •Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Theatre Scene Painting, Stage/Set Design for Television and/or Movies
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Gouache
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pastel Painting/Drawing
- •Screenprinting, Serigraphy, Silkscreen
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Africa
- •Asia, Orient
- •Hawaiian Islands and/or South Seas, Tahiti, Bali
Art Association
- •American Federation of Arts
- •National Society of Arts and Letters
Art School
- •California College of the Arts (and Crafts), Teacher
- •California School of Fine Arts, Teacher
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
- •Yale University School of Fine Art and Architecture, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Edward Ryerson Travel Fellowship, AIC
- •Martin B. Cahn Prize, Chicago Art Institute
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •In Japanese Internment Camp, USA World War II
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Japanese
Exhibition of Museum
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts