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Miyoko Ito

Miyoko Ito (1918 - 1983) was active/lived in Illinois, California / Japan.  Miyoko Ito is known for Non objective, modernist design painting, lithography.

The following biography is based on a 1978 interview with the artist by Dennis Barrie for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. The interview was held at the Oxbow Summer School of Painting in Saugatuck, Michigan:

Artist Statement: "I am very much a Matisse and Picasso person. Some people could never accept that. With me it was a total acceptance in a very short period, within two weeks."

Of Japanese heritage, Miyoko Ito became a Chicago-based watercolor and oil painter and lithographer in modernist styles.

She came from a family where her father had emigrated to Vallejo, California and, thanks to a benefactor, earned a Master's Degree in psychology at Berkeley University. He returned to Japan, married, and brought his wife to America in 1914. Miyoko was born four years later in Berkeley. Because the family had trouble finding housing, the mother and children returned to Japan for five years and got to Yokohama the day before the famous earthquake   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5252 characters.]  Artist bio

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