Kenjiro Nomura, American modernist : an Issei artist's journey
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Author
Contributors
Nomura, Kenjiro, 1896-1956, artist.
Nomura, Kenjiro, 1896-1956. Works.
Martin, David F. 1953- curator,
Nomura, Gail M., writer of foreword.
Echelbarger, Lindsey, writer of foreword.
Nomura, Kenjiro, 1896-1956. Works.
Martin, David F. 1953- curator,
Nomura, Gail M., writer of foreword.
Echelbarger, Lindsey, writer of foreword.
Published
Edmonds, Washington : Cascadia Art Museum, [2021].
Status
Central - Adult Nonfiction
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Published
Edmonds, Washington : Cascadia Art Museum, [2021].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xi, 171 pages : color illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 29 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (159-163) and index.
Description
"Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist: An Issei Artist's Journey features the Japanese American artist's work throughout his life from his early works focusing on Seattle's urban environment and rural Northwest landscapes, to paintings and drawings capturing his life in World War II internment camps, and post-war abstractions fully demonstrating Nomura's artistic stylistic and professional growth. Born in Japan in 1896, Kenjiro Nomura came to the United States with his parents at the age of ten. On his own by sixteen, painting became a constant throughout his life as he experienced not only major artistic recognition but also business success and failure, racism and wartime incarceration, and, at last, American citizenship. The peak of his artistic success was the 1930s, when his paintings represented the Northwest in New York, Washington, DC, and the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. Incarcerated during World War II along with 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast, he continued to paint, leaving a record of his experience in more than one hundred paintings and drawings from his time in the Puyallup detention facility and Minidoka confinement camp. Despite crippling challenges after World War II including the suicide of his wife, he resumed painting, developed a new abstract artistic style, and once again gained recognition--the only one of his prewar colleagues to do so. He fulfilled a long-held goal to become a citizen after a federal law barring citizenship to Asian immigrants was voided"--,Description provided by publisher.
Language
Text in English.
Exhibitions
"Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist: An Issei Artist's Journey is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, organized by Cascadia Art Musuem and on view from October 22, 2021, to February 22, 2022"--Colophon.
Subjects
LC Subjects
Cascadia Art Museum -- Exhibitions -- 21st century.
Essays.
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Internment camps in art -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Japanese American artists -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Japanese American painting -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- In art -- 20th century.
Modernism (Art) -- United States -- Exhibitions.
Nomura, Kenjiro, -- 1896-1956 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Nomura, Kenjiro, -- 1896-1956 -- Exhibitions.
Nomura, Kenjiro, -- 1896-1956 -- Themes, motives.
Essays.
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Internment camps in art -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Japanese American artists -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Japanese American painting -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- In art -- 20th century.
Modernism (Art) -- United States -- Exhibitions.
Nomura, Kenjiro, -- 1896-1956 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Nomura, Kenjiro, -- 1896-1956 -- Exhibitions.
Nomura, Kenjiro, -- 1896-1956 -- Themes, motives.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Johns, B., Nomura, K., Nomura, K., Martin, D. F. 1., Nomura, G. M., & Echelbarger, L. (2021). Kenjiro Nomura, American modernist: an Issei artist's journey . Cascadia Art Museum.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Barbara Johns et al.. 2021. Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist: An Issei Artist's Journey. Cascadia Art Museum.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Barbara Johns et al.. Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist: An Issei Artist's Journey Cascadia Art Museum, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Johns, Barbara, et al. Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist: An Issei Artist's Journey Cascadia Art Museum, 2021.
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