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| Description |
Oil painting on primed canvas
Animal jaw bone with teeth on top of volcanic rock with fungus and lichen growing out of holes.
Artist, Hisashi Hagiya (married to Jack Kudo's sister Yoshiko) made the paintings at Minidoka internment camp in Idaho where he worked in the sign shop.
He was born in Japan and came to Seattle circa 1920 and married Yoshiko. They operated a grocery store at 28th and East Union. He attended Cornish Art School part-time and worked at College Club part-time. He studied under Mark Tobey at Cornish. Hagiya painted in oils and watercolors. During evacuation his whole family went to Camp Harmony at Puyallup and then to Minidoka at Hunt, Idaho. Besides working in the sign shop there, he sometimes translated Japanese/English. Jack Kudo referred to him aas a quiet gentleman. A few months before the war ended Hisashi and Yoshiko went to New York to continue to study art in Greenwich Vollage. He passed away in 1948/9? at 39 years of age. His wife died shortly after and they had no children. |
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1991.035.016 |
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Painting |
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Japanese American |
| Year Range from |
1943 |
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Last modified on: September 01, 2006
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