Tokio Ueyama | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1889 Wakayama, Japan |
| Died | 1954 |
| Occupation | Artist |
Tokio Ueyama (1889–1954) was a Japanese-born painter best known for his landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. He was born in 1889 in Wakayama, Japan,[1] and immigrated to the United States in 1908 when he was 18 years old. He went on to study fine art at the University of Southern California and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He later settled in Los Angeles, California.
Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he was incarcerated with his wife Suye at the Granada Relocation Center (today's Amache National Historic Site) in southeast Colorado. While there, he taught adult art classes.[2] When they returned to Los Angeles in the summer of 1945, they opened a gift shop called Bunkado, which continues to operate in Little Tokyo.[3]
Ueyama died in 1954. His work is in the collections of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, California.[4] His papers are in the Archives of American Art in Washington, DC.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Tokio Ueyama". Bunkado. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
- ^ "Tokio Ueyama | Denver Art Museum". www.denverartmuseum.org. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
- ^ Pearson, Bradford (2020-07-01). "After Internment, a Store Was Born. It's Still an L.A. Staple". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
- ^ "JANM Lends Artworks for Exhibition in Wakayama, Japan JANM Lends Artworks for Exhibition in Wakayama, Japan - FIRST & CENTRAL: The JANM Blog". 2023-09-14. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
- ^ "Series 1 | A Finding Aid to the Tokio Ueyama papers, 1908-circa 1954, bulk 1914-1945 | Digitized Collection | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-17.