Miné Okubo |
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Born | Miné Okubo (1912-06-27)June 27, 1912[1]
Riverside, California |
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Died | February 10, 2001(2001-02-10) (aged 88)[2]
Greenwich Village, New York |
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Nationality | Japanese American (Nisei) |
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Education | Master of Fine Arts, University of California at Berkeley (1938); Studied under Fernand Léger in Paris; Diego Rivera in San Francisco |
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Known for | Drawing, Painting, Writing |
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Notable work | Isseis Lost Everything (painting, 1944); Citizen 13660 (book, 1946, reprinted, 1973, 1983); Mother and Cat (painting, 1941);[3] Numerous works in pen and ink, oil, watercolor, tempera and gouache; Where the Carp Banners Fly (book, 1949, written by Grace W.
McGavran, illustrated by Miné Okubo) |
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Awards | Bertha Taussig Memorial Traveling Fellowship (1938); American Book Award (1984); Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Caucus for Art (1991); Listed in D
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