Tag Archives: Asian-Americans

2018: New City

Posted on February 5, 2020 by corvusfugit

Rim Lee: New City (2018); from a series.

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1894: Versions

Posted on February 17, 2018 by corvusfugit

  Kobayashi Kiyochika: Our Naval Forces in the Yellow Sea Firing at and Sinking Chinese Warships (1894) Josh Cochran: Tritons (c. 2006) Kiyochika’s print is propaganda celebrating Japan’s military superiority in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. Sources here and here. … Continue reading →

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1930: Setting Sun

Posted on November 19, 2017 by corvusfugit

Chiura Obata: Setting Sun on Sacramento Valley, California (1930) As Japanese-Americans, Obata and his family were interned at the Tanforan detention center in California during WWII. Along with other artists, he established an art school in the camp; teachers taught … Continue reading →

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2014: Vase with Landscape and Dinosaurs

Posted on September 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

Steven Young Lee: Vase with Landscape and Dinosaurs (2014) (source)

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1943: Nurse Hamaguchi

Posted on July 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

Ansel Adams: Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi (1943) From Adams’s photographs of Japanese-American internment at Manzanar (here).

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1943: Hazel Ying Lee

Posted on June 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

After Hazel Ying Lee earned her pilot’s license in Portland, Oregon in 1932, she traveled to China with the hopes of joining the Chinese air force and helping to fend off growing Japanese aggression. Turned down because she was a … Continue reading →

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