About the Book
Chapters: Isamu Noguchi, Mine Okubo, Chiura Obata, Luna H. Mitani, Wendy Yoshimura, Gyo Fujikawa, Tsugio Hattori, Ruth Asawa, Satoru Abe, Kinji Akagawa, Arthur Okamura, Sueo Serisawa, Bumpei Akaji, Toshiko Takaezu, Hisako Terasaki, Tadashi Sato, John Naka, Taro Yamamoto, Audrey Kawasaki, Ray Yoshida, Makoto Fujimura, Robert Kinoshita, Gajin Fujita, George T. Tamura, George Tsutakawa, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Esther Shimazu, Keichi Kimura, Mamoru Sato, Sueko Matsueda Kimura, Drue Kataoka, David Kuraoka, Roger Shimomura, Jerry T. Okimoto, Bruce Yonemoto, Minoru Ohira, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Fumiko Kometani, Ogura Yonesuke Itoh. Excerpt: Arthur Okamura Arthur Okamura (b. Feb. 24, 1932 d. July 10, 2009) was an American artist, working in screen printing , drawing and painting. He lived in the San Francisco Bay Area , and was Professor Emeritus at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California . His work is in the permanent collections at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. , the Whitney Museum in New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art . He is associated with the San Francisco Renaissance . He has illustrated numerous works of literature and poetry, has published a book on games and toys for children, and created illustrations for the TV movie "The People " Biography Arthur was born in Long Beach, California , on February 24, 1932. While a child, his family was relocated to Granada War Relocation Center set up in the United States during World War II for the forcible relocation of residents of Japanese ancestry. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1950-54, Yale School of Art in 1954, and the University of Chicago in 1951, 1953,and 1957. He moved to California after his university studies, living in San Francisco, then Bolinas. He taught at the Californi...
