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Arthur Okamura

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Arthur Okamura (1932 - 2009) was active/lived in California, Illinois.  Arthur Okamura is known for Modernist-leaning landscape to non ob and figure painting.

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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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17 Book References for Arthur Okamura
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Landauer, Susan San Francisco and Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism 240 Yes
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1992 Brown, Michael D Views from Asian California: An Illustrated History 1920-1965 71 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1985 Albright, Thomas Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History 349 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1967 Howe, Thomas C Painters Behind Painters An Exhibition of Central California Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1962 Goodrich, Lloyd/Edward Bryant Forty Artists under Forty From the Whitney Museum of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1962 Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness Art U S A Now (2 volumes) 474 Yes
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