Benji Okubo (October 27, 1904–April 15, 1975) was an American-Japanese painter, teacher, and landscape designer. He and his family were held in internment camps during World War II.
American-Japanese painter, teacher and landscape designer
Okubo served as director of the Art Students League from 1940 to mid-1942,[2] when he was interned at the Pomona Assembly Center outside Los Angeles.[1][3] Later in the year, he was transferred to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming.[4] He and fellow artist Hideo Date initiated evening and Saturday art classes at the internment camp.[4] Date soon withdrew from teaching,[4] but Okubo taught until his release in September 1945.[4]Estelle Peck Ishigo was one of his students.[4] Chisato Takashima was another student, and they married in Billings, Montana on June 12, 1945.[5]
Okubo returned to his landscape design business after his internment.[1] He and his wife had a daughter, Mi-Ya Okubo.
Vision of the Blue Lily (Self-Portrait) (c.1930s), private collection
Untitled (Green-Faced Woman (c.1930s), Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles[6]
Woman with Cat (c.1942-1945), Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles[7]
Untitled (Dungeon: Well of Sorrow) (c.1942-1945), Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles[8]
Untitled (Impaled Soldier) (c.1942-1945), Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles[9]
Untitled (Hand of God) (c.1942-1945), Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles[10]
Atom Bomb (1945), Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles[11]
References
Okubo, BenjiArchived 2019-08-02 at the Wayback Machine at Japanese American National Museum.
Will South, "The Art Student League of Los Angeles: A Brief History," in Julia Armstrong-Totten, et al., A Seed of Modernism: The Art Students League of Los Angeles, 1906–1953, Pasadena Museum of California Art. 2008, pp. 1-12.
Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, "The Art Student League of Los Angeles: A Japanese American Connection," in Julia Armstrong-Totten, et al., A Seed of Modernism: The Art Students League of Los Angeles, 1906–1953, Pasadena Museum of California Art. 2008, pp. 14-31.
Phil Kovinick, "The Art Student League of Los Angeles: Selected Artist Biographies," in Julia Armstrong-Totten, et al., A Seed of Modernism: The Art Students League of Los Angeles, 1906–1953, Pasadena Museum of California Art. 2008, p. 117.
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