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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
Arthur Okamura - Artist Info
About Arthur Okamura: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (11)
All MuseumsButler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45202Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution: 7th Street & Independence Ave. Sw
Mail To: Po Box 37012/Hmsg Mrc 350
Washington, DC 20013-7012National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OKCMOA
415 Couch Drive
Oklahoma City, OK 73102Phoenix Art Museum
1625 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004-1685San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101-2476Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014