biography of George TSUTAKAWA (1910-1997)

Birth place: Seattle, WA

Addresses: Seattle, WA

Profession: Sculptor, painter

Studied: Japan; with Alexander Archipenko, 1936; Univ Wash Sch Art, BFA, 1937, MFA, 1950.

Exhibited: SAM, 1934, 1936, 1949, 1971 (solo); Henry Gallery, Seattle, 1951; 3rd Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1955; San Francisco Painting & Sculpture Ann, SFMA, 1955, 1958 & 1960; 3rd Pac Coast Biennial, Santa Barbara Mus Art, Calif, 1959; 66th Ann Exhib Western Art, Denver Art Mus, Colo, 1960; Int Art Festival, Amerika Haus, Berlin, E Ger, 1966. Awards: Award for Obos No 5 (wood), Santa Barbara Mus Art, 1959; awards for Obos No 9 (wood), SFMA & Denver Art Mus, 1960.

Member: Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters; Artists Equity Assoc.

Work: Seattle Art Mus, Wash; Denver Art Mus, Colo; Santa Barbara Mus Art, Calif; Henry Art Gallery, Univ Wash, Seattle. Commissions: Fountain of Wisdom (bronze), Seattle Pub Libr, 1960; Waiola (fountain sculpture in bronze), Ala Moana Ctr, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1966; Garth Fountain (bronze), Nat Cathedral, Washington, DC, 1968; bronze fountain sculpture, Franklin Murphy Sculpture Garden, Univ Calif, Los Angeles, 1969; fountain sculpture in bronze, Jefferson Plaza, Indianapolis, Ind, 1971.

Comments: Preferred Media: bronze, watercolors. Teaching: Prof art, Univ Wash, 1946-.

Sources: WW73; Henry Seldis, Pacific Heritage: Exhibition Review," Art in Am (Feb, 1965); Gervais Reed, "The Fountains of George Tsutakawa," Am Inst Archit J (July, 1969); Marcell R Heinley, "George Tsutakawa, Fountain Sculptor," Designers West (Feb, 1970); Trip and Cook, Washington State Art and Artists.