biography of Henry Yuzuru SUGIMOTO (1900/04-1990)

Birth place: Los Angeles, CA

Addresses: Hanford, CA, until 1950; NYC

Profession: Painter, instructor, graphic artist

Studied: Calif. College Arts & Crafts (B.F.A.); Calif. School Fine Arts; UCal; Segonzac; Acad. Colarossi, Paris.

Exhibited: Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1931; Calif.-Pacific Expo, 1935; SFMA, 1935; San Francisco AA, 1936 (prize); Los Angeles AA; San Francisco Lg. Art, 1936; Hanford (CA) Pub. Lib., 1937 (solo); Fnd. Western Artists, 1937 (Art Concour Award); Arkansas State Exhib., 1946; GGE, 1939 (Fine Arts Exhib., recognition medal); U.S. Exhib., Mod. World Exhib., Tokyo, Japan, 1950; PAFA Ann., 1953; Salon Artistes Français, Paris, 1963; Months of Waiting, Doc. Painting Traveling Exhib., 1972 (recognition plaque for Months of Waiting, Los Angeles Co. Board Supervisors); Wiener Gal, NYC, 1970s.

Member: San Francisco AA; Calif. WCS; Fnd. Western Artists; Calif. Lg. Writers & Artists; Art Center, San Francisco; Washington Printmaker Soc.; Nika-Kai AA, Tokyo.

Work: Mus. Crecy, France; CPLH; Calif. College Arts & Crafts; H.S., Pub. Lib., Hanford, CA; Hendrix College Fine Art Mus., AR; Wakayama Mod. Art Mus, Japan; Univ. Arkansas Art Mus.

Comments: Preferred media: oils, watercolors, wood. Positions: art consultant, War Relocation Authority, 1943-45.Teaching: Denson H.S., Arkansas, 1943-44. Research: documentary painting of the War Relocation Centers of Japanese during World War II. Publications: Illustrator,Songs for the Land of Dawn" (1949), "Toshio and Tama" (1949) & "New Friends for Susan," 511; contributor, "Beauty Behind Barbed Wire" (1952) & "Nisei" (1969).

Sources: WW73; WW47; New America (Life & War Relocation Authority, 1946); Falk, Exh. Record Series.