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1925 Yakima, Washington - 2004 Northern Liberties, Pennsylvania. Known for: Nude figure, landscape, still life, and portrait painting, lithographs, teaching.
Following is the obituary of the artist, Submitted to askART by M.D. Silverbrooke, from the Philadelphia Inquirer, February 29, 2004. Ben Kamihira, 78, Painter, Art Teacher. Ben Kamihira, 78,... Read full biography
Following is the obituary of the artist, Submitted to askART by M.D. Silverbrooke, from the Philadelphia Inquirer, February 29, 2004. Ben Kamihira, 78, Painter, Art Teacher. Ben Kamihira, 78, critically acclaimed figurative painter and longtime teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,... Read full biography
Following is the obituary of the artist, Submitted to askART by M.D. Silverbrooke, from the Philadelphia Inquirer, February 29, 2004. Ben Kamihira, 78, Painter, Art Teacher. Ben Kamihira, 78, critically acclaimed figurative painter and longtime teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, died of cancer Wednesday at home in Northern Liberties. Mr. Kamihira's paintings, which hang in major museums throughout the world, reflect poetic fantasy and joyless moods. The son of Japanese... Read full biography
Following is the obituary of the artist, Submitted to askART by M.D. Silverbrooke, from the Philadelphia Inquirer, February 29, 2004. Ben Kamihira, 78, Painter, Art Teacher. Ben Kamihira, 78, critically acclaimed figurative painter and longtime teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, died of cancer Wednesday at home in Northern Liberties. Mr. Kamihira's paintings, which hang in major museums throughout the world, reflect poetic fantasy and joyless moods. The son of Japanese immigrants, Mr. Kamihira was born on a farm in Yakima, Wash. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, his family was sent to a relocation camp and later to eastern Oregon to pick sugar beets. From 1944 to 1946, he served in the Army's Japanese American 442nd... Read full biography
Following is the obituary of the artist, Submitted to askART by M.D. Silverbrooke, from the Philadelphia Inquirer, February 29, 2004. Ben Kamihira, 78, Painter, Art Teacher. Ben Kamihira, 78, critically acclaimed figurative painter and longtime teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, died of cancer Wednesday at home in Northern Liberties. Mr. Kamihira's paintings, which hang in major museums throughout the world, reflect poetic fantasy and joyless moods. The son of Japanese immigrants, Mr. Kamihira was born on a farm in Yakima, Wash. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, his family was sent to a relocation camp and later to eastern Oregon to pick sugar beets. From 1944 to 1946, he served in the Army's Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy. While overseas, his wife Elizabeth Hetheringt... Read full biography
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Keywords (32)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
- •Photo Realism, Hyperrealism, Super Realism
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Interior Scenes
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Italy
Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Student
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
- •Benjamin Altman Prize, National Academy of Design
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
- •Lippincott Prize, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Sara Roby Foundation
Added Description
- •442 Regimental Combat Team, USA World War II
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •In Japanese Internment Camp, USA World War II
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Japanese
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts