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Arthur Okamura

Arthur Okamura (1932 - 2009) was active/lived in California, Illinois.  Arthur Okamura is 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 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 became the main layout artist and stencil cutter.

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