Chiura Obata
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Chiura Obata was a well-known Japanese American artist and popular art teacher. A self-described "roughneck", Obata went to the United States in 1903, at age 17. After initially working as an illustra
Professor Chiura Obata painting in 1944
Professor Obata and family in 1944; (L–R):Gyo, Lily, Haruko, Prof. Obata.
Obata's New Moon, painted at Topaz and exhibited in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1943.
George Hellmuth, Gyo Obata and George Kassabaum in the Welek Fabrics Building on 315 N. 10th St. in St. Louis (1956).
Miné Okubo
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Miné Okubo was an American artist and writer. She is best known for her book Citizen 13660, a collection of 198 drawings and accompanying text chronicling her experiences in Japanese American internme
Chiura Obata
…remaining works. In April 1942, Obata was interned at the Tanforan detention center. By May, he and fellow artists, including George Matsusaburo Hibi and Mine Okubo, were able to create an art school that had 600 students, entirely with their own money and with donations from the outside from friends from U.C…
Okubo in 1945