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Creator:

Tokita, Kamekichi  Search this

Names:

Art Institute of Seattle  Search this

Henry Art Gallery  Search this

Hotel Cadillac (Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

Minidoka Relocation Center  Search this

Public Works of Art Project  Search this

Seattle Art Museum  Search this

Baker, Burt Brown  Search this

Boynton, Roy  Search this

Callahan, Kenneth, 1905-1986  Search this

Tokita, Elsie  Search this

Tokita, Shokichi  Search this

Extent:

1.5 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photograph albums

Photographs

Sketches

Scrapbooks

Diaries

Date:

circa 1900-circa 2010

bulk 1900-1948

Summary:

The scattered personal papers of Seattle area painter Kamekichi Tokita (1897-1948) measure 1.5 linear feet and date from circa 1900 to circa 2010 with the bulk of the material dating from circa 1910 to 1948. The papers include biographical materials, including documents about the closing of the War Relocation Authority's Minidoka Camp in Idaho; correspondence; three diaries written in Japanese documenting Tokita's war time experiences and relocation to Minidoka, two earlier notebooks, also written in Japanese, and scattered notes; a few personal business records; printed materials; one scrapbook; sketches; and one family photograph album.

Scope and Contents:

The scattered personal papers of Seattle area painter Kamekichi Tokita (1897-1948) measure 1.5 linear feet and date from circa 1900 to circa 2010 with the bulk of the material dating from circa 1910 to 1948. The papers include biographical materials, including documents about the closing of the War Relocation Authority's Minidoka Camp in Idaho; correspondence; three diaries written in Japanese documenting Tokita's war time experiences and relocation to Minidoka, two earlier notebooks, also written in Japanese, and scattered notes; a few personal business records; printed materials; one scrapbook; sketches; and one family photograph album.

Biographical materials include a file on the Public Works of Art Project, a file on the War Relocation Authority and the closing of the Minidoka internment camp, an immigration document, and an essay on Tokita written by Shokichi and Elsie Tokita.

Correspondence is primarily professional in nature and concerns exhibitions at the Seattle Museum of Art (previously the Art Institute of Seattle) and other topics. Correspondents include Burt Brown Baker, Roy Boynton, Kenneth Callahan, Henry Gallery, the Seattle Art Museum, and others.

Tokita's writings consist of three diaries, two notebooks, and scattered general writings, most of which are in Japanese. The diaries were kept during World War II and document the family's confinement at the Minidoka Relocation Camp in Idaho. Included is a transcript of the diaries which were translated from prewar to modern Japanese by Haruo Takasugi and from modern Japanese to English by Naomi Kusunoki-Martin.

Scattered business records include a patent application, records from the Cadillac Hotel, and a claim filed through the Department of Justice. A few published books in English and Japanese are about art and religion. Also found are exhibition catalogs for shows in which Tokita participated and clippings. There is one mixed media scrapbook about Tokita's exhibitions.

Artwork consists of unsigned pencil and watercolor sketches by Tokita. There is also a family photo album containing snapshots and portraits of the Tokita family and friends.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 8 series:

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1934-1985 (Box 1; 4 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, circa 1920-1944 (Box 1; 6 folders)

Series 3: Writings and Notes, 1923-circa 1950 (Box 1; 0.2 linear feet)

Series 4: Personal Business Records, 1928-1950 (Box 1; 3 folders)

Series 5: Printed Material, circa 1910-1940 (Box 1-3; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 6: Scrapbook, 1929-1933 (Box 2-3; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 7: Artwork, circa 1910-1940s (Box 2-3; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 8: Photograph Album, circa 1900-1930 (Box 2; 0.2 linear feet)

Biographical / Historical:

Kamekichi Tokita (1897-1948) was a Japanese American painter and businessman who emigrated from Japan in 1919 and settled in Seattle, Washington. Tokita was a member of the Seattle area progressive artists' collective known as the "Group of Twelve" and widely exhibited his artwork throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Kamekichi Tokita was born in Shizouka City, Japan and immigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-two. He settled in the Japantown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington where he opened the Noto Sign Company with business partner Kenjiro Nomura. Nomura was also an artist and encouraged Tokita's interest in oil painting. They both used the sign shop as their studio after-hours. In 1936, the Noto Sign Company closed and Tokita took over management of the Cadillac Hotel, although he continued to paint commercial signs. Tokita married Haruko Suzuki in 1932 and together they had eight children.

As a child in Japan, Tokita studied calligraphy in China. Although he attended a few art school classes in in the U.S. and went on weekend painting trips with Nomura and other Seattle artists, Tokita is considered to be a largely self-trained artist. Support and recognition came from Dorothy V. Morrison of the Henry Gallery at the University of Washington who wrote to Tokita to inquire whether a "group of Japanese artists in the city" would be interested in exhibiting their work. Although the exhibition of Japanese artists did not happen, Tokita later loaned paintings to the gallery for inclusion in an exhibition sponsored by the American Federation of Arts. Throughout the late 1920s and 1930s Tokita exhibited widely in the Seattle area. In 1935, the Seattle Daily Times touted the work of Tokita and other painters in the "Group of Twelve" that also included Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, Walter F. Isaacs, and Ambrose and Viola Patterson, among others. In 1942, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Kamekichi Tokita and his family (five children at the time), along with the 110,000 – 120,000 Japanese and Japanese-American citizens living on the West Coast, were ordered under President Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 to relocate to one of several confinement camps. For the first six months of their confinement, the family lived at a temporary Civilian Assembly Center in Puyallup, Washington. They were transferred to the Minidoka Relocation Camp in Hunt, Idaho where they remained until their release in 1945. The confinement camps were organized much like communes and independent cities (fenced and guarded) where the residents were self-reliant for most of their basic necessities, including schooling. While interned in Minidoka, Tokita worked as a sign painter and continued to privately paint, using whatever materials he could find, including beaver board. His work was featured in art shows at the camp. Many of his camp scenes are now lost or were given away.

At the end of World War II, Tokita and his family (now seven children) moved back to the Seattle-area. Unable to find housing, the Tokitas lived at a Japanese language school until Tokita was able to re-establish his business. During this period he painted very little. In 1946 Tokita and his wife purchased the New Lucky Hotel in the Chinatown area of Seattle. Shortly thereafter, Tokita fell ill and died in 1948. Many of his works are believed to have been destroyed or lost. Some of his work remains, however, and is among the permanent collections of the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum.

Note: Much of this biographical note was taken from "A Biographical Resume" written by Shokichi and Elsie Y. Tokita.

Separated Materials:

A watercolor painting on paper by Kamekichi Tokita, Untitled (Still Life), 9 x 12 in. was transferred to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2012.

Provenance:

The Kamekichi Tokita papers were donated by his son, Shokichi Tokita in 1990. He donated a third and final diary in 2017. They were collected as part of the Archives of American Art Northwest Asian American project in Seattle, Washington.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Painters -- Washington (State) -- Seattle  Search this

Topic:

Art, American -- Northwestern States  Search this

World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans  Search this

Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Diaries  Search this

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Washington (State) -- Seattle  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Northwestern States  Search this

Asian American artists  Search this

Japanese American art  Search this

Japanese Americans  Search this

Asian American art  Search this

Japanese American artists  Search this

Japanese American painting  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photograph albums

Photographs

Sketches

Scrapbooks

Diaries

Citation:

Kamekichi Tokita papers, circa 1900-circa 2010, bulk circa 1910-1948. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool

Identifier:

AAA.tokikame

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Kamekichi Tokita Papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-tokikame

Author:

Tajima, Shiichi 1869-1924  Search this

Subject:

Ogata, Kōrin 1658-1716  Search this

Ogata, Kenzan 1663-1743  Search this

Shiko 1683-1755  Search this

Sakai, Hōitsu 1761-1828  Search this

Suzuki, Kiitsu 1796-1858  Search this

Rinpa school  Search this

Physical description:

5 v., col. plates ; 42 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1974

Call number:

754.7 .T35

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_857390

Author:

Tosa Jinja (Nangoku-shi, Japan)  Search this

Kōchi Kenritsu Rekishi Minzoku Shiryōkan  Search this

JAC Project  Search this

Subject:

Tosa Jinja (Nangoku-shi, Japan) Art collections  Search this

Physical description:

15 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Place:

Japan

Date:

1997

[1997]

To 1868

Topic:

Bronze mirrors--History  Search this

Call number:

NK8440.2.J3 T63 1997

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_844375

Author:

Kokubo, Kazuhiro  Search this

Physical description:

234 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

China

Japan

Date:

1985

Shōwa 60 [1985]

Tʻang-Five dynasties, 618-968

Topic:

Bronze mirrors--History  Search this

Bronze mirrors  Search this

Animals in art  Search this

Grapes in art  Search this

Call number:

\NK\8440\ .K65

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_870723

Author:

Araki, Hiroshi 1880-  Search this

Physical description:

181 pages ; 22 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

Japan

Nara-shi

Date:

1959

Shōwa 34 [1959]

Topic:

Buddhist sculpture--Technique  Search this

Bronze founding  Search this

Statues  Search this

Butsuzō  Search this

Call number:

NB1912.B83 A68 1959

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_882676

Author:

Dōno, Tsurumatsu  Search this

Physical description:

242 p. : ill. ; 22 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1967

Shōwa 42 [1967]

To 221 B.C

Topic:

Bronzes, Chinese  Search this

Metallurgy--History  Search this

Metals--Analysis  Search this

Call number:

NK7983.22 .D6 1967

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_882802

Author:

Umehara, Sueji 1893-  Search this

Physical description:

45 p. ; 23 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

Japan

Date:

1925

1925]

Topic:

Dōtaku  Search this

Call number:

DS815 .U67 1925

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_883090

Author:

Shinoyama, Kishin 1910-  Search this

Physical description:

8 volumes : chiefly color illustrations, map ; 34 cm

Type:

Books

Pictorial works

Place:

Asia, Central

Middle East

China

Japan

Korea

Turkey

Greece

Italy

Silk Road

Central Asia

Asia

Date:

1981

1983

©1981-1983

Call number:

DS793.S62 S565

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_849447

Author:

Tōdaiji (Nara-shi, Japan) Kyōgakubu  Search this

Physical description:

vi, 316 p., [7] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 19 cm

Type:

Books

Dictionaries

Place:

Asia, Central

Silk Road

Date:

1989

Topic:

Biography  Search this

Call number:

DS328 .S6

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_873071

Author:

Tōhō Gakkai  Search this

International Conference of Orientalists in Japan  Search this

Physical description:

39 v. : ill. ; 21 cm

Type:

Periodicals

Congresses

Place:

Asia

Date:

1956

1994

[1956-1994]

Topic:

Oriental philology--Congresses  Search this

Study and teaching  Search this

Call number:

PJ21 .I61

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_88908

Author:

Hirayama, Ikuo 1930-2009  Search this

Katō, Takuo 1917-2005  Search this

Shiruku Rōdo Rittaiten Jikkō Iinkai  Search this

Takashimaya Tōkyō Shiten  Search this

Subject:

Egami, Namio 1906-2002  Search this

Hirayama, Ikuo 1930-2009  Search this

Katō, Takuo 1917-2005  Search this

Physical description:

107, [1] pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm

Type:

Books

Exhibitions

Exhibition catalogs

Place:

Silk Road

Asia

Date:

1992

©1992

Topic:

Antiquities  Search this

Call number:

DS793.S62 N55 1992

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_846097

Author:

Tōyō Bunko (Japan)  Search this

Subject:

Tōyō Bunko (Japan)  Search this

Physical description:

v. 26 cm

Type:

Books

Catalogs

Bibliography

Place:

Asia

Date:

1944

1944-

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_878313

Published by:

MelPat Associates, American, 1965 - 1986  Search this

Created by:

C. Melvin Patrick, American, died 1985  Search this

National Association of Market Developers, American, founded 1953  Search this

Subject of:

National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, American, founded 1969  Search this

National Urban Affairs Council, American, founded 1971  Search this

Interracial Council for Business Opportunity, American, founded 1963  Search this

Prince Hall Freemasonry, founded 1784  Search this

Chi Delta Mu Fraternity, Inc., American, founded 1913  Search this

Top Ladies of Distinction, Inc., American, founded 1964  Search this

Continental Societies, Inc., American, founded 1956  Search this

Rose Morgan, American, 1912 - 2008  Search this

William Otis Walker, American, 1896 - 1981  Search this

National Newspaper Publishers Association, American, founded 1827  Search this

African Methodist Episcopal Church, American, founded 1816  Search this

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909  Search this

Lambda Kappa Mu Sorority, Inc., American, founded 1937  Search this

The Links, Incorporated, American, founded 1946  Search this

National Association of Black Accountants, Inc., American, founded 1969  Search this

Carats, Inc., American, founded 1959  Search this

People United to Save Humanity, American, founded 1971  Search this

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, founded 1908  Search this

Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc., American, founded 1932  Search this

National United Church Ushers Association of America, Inc., American, founded 1919  Search this

National Pharmaceutical Association, American, founded 1947  Search this

National Medical Association, American, founded 1895  Search this

Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., founded 1922  Search this

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, American, founded 1920  Search this

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., American, founded 1906  Search this

Eta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., American, founded 1943  Search this

National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., American, founded 1935  Search this

National Urban League, American, founded 1910  Search this

National Association of University Women, American, founded 1910  Search this

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., American, founded 1911  Search this

Shriners International, American, founded 1870  Search this

Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks of the World, American, founded 1898  Search this

Iota Phi Lambda Sorority, Inc., American, founded 1929  Search this

Vernon Jordan, American, born 1935  Search this

National Business League, American, founded 1900  Search this

Congressional Black Caucus, American, founded 1971  Search this

Arthur Ashe Jr., American, 1943 - 1993  Search this

National Bankers Association, American, founded 1927  Search this

National Bar Association, American, founded 1925  Search this

369th Veterans Association, American  Search this

Percy Ellis Sutton, American, 1920 - 2009  Search this

Morehouse College, American, founded 1867  Search this

Joe Louis, American, 1914 - 1981  Search this

Clarence D. King, American, 1888 - 1981  Search this

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, American, founded 1914  Search this

National Black Veterans Association, American, founded 1974  Search this

Medium:

ink on paper

Dimensions:

H x W x D: 10 13/16 × 8 7/16 × 1/2 in. (27.5 × 21.4 × 1.3 cm)

Type:

magazines (periodicals)

Place made:

Harlem, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

Place depicted:

Martha's Vineyard, Oak Bluffs, Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America

Date:

1982

Topic:

African American  Search this

Advertising  Search this

Associations and institutions  Search this

Broadway Theatre  Search this

Business  Search this

Communities  Search this

Film  Search this

Fraternal organizations  Search this

Fraternities  Search this

Government  Search this

HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)  Search this

Journalism  Search this

Labor  Search this

Mass media  Search this

Men  Search this

Political organizations  Search this

Politics  Search this

Professional organizations  Search this

Religious groups  Search this

Social life and customs  Search this

Sororities  Search this

U.S. History, 1969-2001  Search this

Urban life  Search this

Women  Search this

Credit Line:

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Anne B. Patrick and the family of Hilda E. Stokely

Object number:

2012.167.16

Restrictions & Rights:

Public domain

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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

Classification:

Documents and Published Materials-Published Works

Data Source:

National Museum of African American History and Culture

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd595b77a5e-4524-45a5-90d3-81855fc7528c

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmaahc_2012.167.16

Creator:

McLaughlin, John, 1898-,  Search this

Subject:

Benjamin, Karl  Search this

Anderson, Eugene Newton  Search this

Salz, Peter  Search this

Langsner, Jules  Search this

McLaughlin, John  Search this

Felix Landau Gallery  Search this

Reinhardt, Ad  Search this

Macdonald-Wright, Stanton  Search this

Hammersley, Frederick  Search this

Tamarind Lithography Workshop  Search this

Pasadena Art Museum  Search this

André Emmerich Gallery  Search this

Corcoran Gallery of Art  Search this

Type:

Paintings

Sketches

Collages

Photographs

Topic:

Art, Modern -- California -- Los Angeles  Search this

Painting, Abstract -- California -- Exhibitions  Search this

Prints, Japanese  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7963

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210131

AAA_collcode_mclajohn

Theme:

American Art and Artists in a Global Context

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210131

Author:

Musée Carnavalet  Search this

Kanagawa Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan  Search this

Mie Kenritsu Bijutsukan  Search this

JAC Project  Search this

Physical description:

155 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

In art

Place:

Paris (France)

Date:

1986

C1986

1868-

Topic:

Painting, Japanese  Search this

Painting, Japanese--Western style  Search this

Call number:

ND1055 .P37 1986

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_835468

Creator:

Yoshida, Ray  Search this

Names:

Art Institute of Chicago. School -- Faculty  Search this

Phyllis Kind Gallery  Search this

Berdich, Vera, 1915-2003  Search this

Blackshear, Kathleen, 1897-1988  Search this

Brown, Roger, 1941-1997  Search this

Ito, Miyoko, 1918-1983  Search this

Kapsalis, Thomas Harry, 1925-  Search this

Kim, Jin Soo, 1950-  Search this

Nilsson, Gladys, 1940-  Search this

Nutt, Jim, 1938-  Search this

Ramberg, Christina  Search this

Rossi, Barbara, 1940-  Search this

Spears, Ethel, 1903-1974  Search this

Wirsum, Karl, 1939-  Search this

Extent:

10 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Sketchbooks

Scrapbooks

Collages

Drawings

Interviews

Prints

Sketches

Transcripts

Video recordings

Date:

circa 1895-2010

bulk 1950-2005

Summary:

The papers of Chicago artist and educator Ray Yoshida measure 10 linear feet and date from circa 1895 to 2010, with the bulk of the material dating from 1950 to 2005. Yoshida's career as a painter and collagist as well as his long tenure as a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago are documented through biographical material, personal correspondence, notebooks and writings, teaching records, personal business records, printed material, source material, photographs, sketchbooks, artwork by Yoshida and others, and scrapbooks. Items within the collection also document Yoshida's personal interest in collecting folk art and artifacts.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of Chicago artist and educator Ray Yoshida measure 10 linear feet and date from circa 1895 to 2010, with the bulk of the material dating from 1950 to 2005. Yoshida's career as a painter and collagist as well as his long tenure as a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago are documented through biographical material, personal correspondence, notebooks and writings, teaching records, personal business records, printed material, source material, photographs, sketchbooks, artwork by Yoshida and others, and scrapbooks. Items within the collection also document Yoshida's personal interest in collecting folk art and artifacts.

Biographical material about Ray Yoshida includes award certificates, identification records, student records, and interview transcripts. Also found is one video recording of a documentary short about Yoshida's art and object collection at his Chicago home.

Correspondence includes letters, postcards, and greeting cards from friends, colleagues, and artists, including Roger Brown, Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Christina Ramberg, Karl Wirsum, Miyoko Ito, Jin Soo Kim, Barbara Rossi, Vera Berdich, and Tom Kapsalis.

Notebooks contain notes on art history, art technique, Japanese language, travel, and other subjects. Many of the notebooks include sketches and contain loose items.

Writings by Yoshida consist of college papers, fragments of writings on art and other subjects, and notes. Writings by others include essays by Yoshida's students, exhibition essay drafts, and poetry.

Teaching records primarily document Yoshida's tenure as a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, though a few records of guest professorships at other schools are included. These records include course evaluations, employment records, teaching notes, and letters of recommendation for students. Miscellaneous teaching records include department memos, course summaries, correspondence, and notes.

Personal business records consists of documentation regarding the sale, exhibition, and loan of artwork by Ray Yoshida, including his business dealings with the Phyllis Kind Gallery. Additionally there are several files regarding the estate of artist Roger Brown.

Printed material includes exhibition catalogs, announcements, news clippings, newsletters and press releases documenting Yoshida's career and other subjects.

Source material consists of material that Yoshida gathered and intended to use for his art. Collected printed material includes postcards, comics and comic books, mail order catalogs, magazines, product labels, and advertisements. Also found are many small clippings from comics collected for collages.

Photographs depict Ray Yoshida, friends, students, travel, and artwork. Also found are a few photographs of Karl Wirsum's studio, as well as photographs of various subjects collected by Yoshida. Additionally, there is one photograph album from the early 1910s of an unidentified family.

Sketchbooks include pencil and ink sketches of various subjects.

Artwork by Ray Yoshida includes collages on paper, pencil sketches, and ink drawings. Artworks by others include numerous prints by Kathleen Blackshear, Ethel Spears, and Vivian Mayers, and collages, drawings, and prints given to Yoshida by students and friends. Some work by unidentified artists is included as well. Other artwork, such as handmade picture and alphabet books, appears to have been created by children and collected by Yoshida.

Scrapbooks include volumes that were created by Yoshida as well as books created by others. Three of the scrapbooks containing source images, clippings, and comics appear to have been created by Yoshida. Additional scrapbooks were created by others and collected by Yoshida.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 12 series.

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1950-2005 (0.5 Linear feet; Box 1)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1952-2009 (2 Linear feet; Boxes 1-3, 11, 15)

Series 3: Notebooks, circa 1956-circa 2000 (0.3 Linear feet; Box 3)

Series 4: Writings, circa 1950-2003 (0.3 Linear feet; Box 3)

Series 5: Teaching Records, circa 1960-2003 (0.6 Linear feet; Boxes 3-4)

Series 6: Personal Business Records, circa 1960-2010 (0.4 Linear feet; Box 4)

Series 7: Printed Material, 1906-2010 (1.8 Linear feet; Boxes 4-6, 11, OV 14)

Series 8: Source Material, circa 1940-circa 2005 (0.7 Linear Feet; Boxes 6-7, 11)

Series 9: Photographs, circa 1910-circa 2005 (0.5 Linear feet; Box 7)

Series 10: Sketchbooks, circa 1960-circa 2000 (1.1 Linear feet; Boxes 7-8, 11-13)

Series 11: Artwork, 1903-2009 (0.7 Linear feet; Boxes 8, 13)

Series 12: Scrapbooks, circa 1895-circa 2005 (1 Linear feet; Boxes 8-10, 13)

Biographical / Historical:

Ray Yoshida (1930-2009) was a painter, collagist, and educator in Chicago, Illinois.

Raymond Kakuo Yoshida was born in Kapaa, Hawaii, in 1930. He attended the University of Hawaii for two years and completed a B.A. in Arts Education at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1953. He also served in the U.S. Army for two years during the Korean War. In 1957 he recieved his M.F.A from Syracuse University and became a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1959. He was named Frank Harold Sellers Professor in the Department of Painting and Drawing in 1971, retired as professor emeritus in 1998, and continued to teach until 2003.

Yoshida was a member of the Chicago Imagists, a loose and informal group of representational artists from the late 1960s to early 1970s who were influenced by Surrealism and connected to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Yoshida's friends and contemporaries among this group include but are not limited to Roger Brown, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, and Barbara Rossi. Yoshida was an inspiring teacher and he mentored many of the later Chicago Imagists such as Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, and Karl Wirsum.

Yoshida's paintings and collages were strongly influenced by comics as well as his own collection of folk and outsider art. He regularly exhibited at Phyllis Kind Gallery in Chicago from 1975 to 1996, and a major retrospective of his work was organized by the Contemporary Museum of Honolulu in 1998. He retired to Hawaii in 2005 where he lived until his death in 2009 due to cancer. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Sullivan Galleries held a posthumous retrospective exhibition of Yoshida's work from 2010-2011 and the John Michael Kohler Art Center had an exhibition of Yoshida's personal collection of art and artifacts in 2013.

Provenance:

The collection was donated in 2012 by Ray Yoshida via Terri Yoho of the Kohler Foundation, representing Yoshida's estate, and in 2013 and 2015-2016 by Jennifer Sabas and Shayle Miller, estate executors.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate copy requires advance notice. One box of letters from Jim Nutt are ACCESS RESTRICTED; use requires written permission.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Educators -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Collagists -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Topic:

Folk art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Painters -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Art -- History  Search this

Art -- Technique  Search this

Artists' studios -- Photographs  Search this

Asian American artists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Sketchbooks

Scrapbooks

Collages

Drawings

Interviews

Prints

Sketches

Transcripts

Video recordings

Citation:

Ray Yoshida papers, circa 1895-2010, bulk 1950-2005. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

The processing and digitization of the Ray Yoshida papers received Federal support from the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.

Identifier:

AAA.yoshray

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Ray Yoshida papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-yoshray

Interviewee:

Tuttle, Richard, 1941-  Search this

Interviewer:

McElhinney, James, 1952-  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Topic:

Artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Installations (Art)  Search this

Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Printmakers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17419

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)384977

AAA_collcode_tuttle16

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_384977

Creator:

Tuttle, Richard, 1941-  Search this

McElhinney, James Lancel, 1952-  Search this

Extent:

3 Items (sound files (4 hrs., 4 min.), digital, wav)

59 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2016 November 14-17

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Richard Tuttle conducted 2016 November 14 and 17, by James McElhinney, for the Archives of American Art, at Tuttle's home in New York, New York.

Tuttle recalls early memories at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; his mother's influence; family background from Pennsylvania, and Celtic ancestry; discussion of Calvinism; philosophies of art schools; discussion of Japanese language, literature and philosophy; designing book covers for Graham Greene; joining the air force and being honorably discharged; friendship with Agnes Martin; observations about the landscapes and geology of New Mexico and the Lascaux caves; thoughts on Humboldt and other German philosophers, Husserl, Philipp Otto Runge, and others; Travel in Peru, and his recent exhibitions in Lima, Peru; discussion of religion, art, senses; discussion of philosophy: Epicurus, Lucretius. Tuttle speaks of his childhood; he describes his siblings and his brother serving in the Vietnam War; discussion of creativity, education and difficulty with teachers, and being a creative child; influence of his grandparents; influence of religion and German background; teachers and relationship to his childhood schools; discussion of the 2016 elections and comparison to Republican Rome and Julius Caesar; engagement in theater, and writing at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut; influence of Sam Wagstaff; Interest in Allan Kaprow; comparing Picasso and Matisse; discussion of the cultural history of Hartford; visiting New York City in high school and college and the encouragement of his high school teacher; early artworks and creation of Paper Cubes; briefly attending Cooper Union; working in the library at the Cooper Hewitt Museum; discussion of Beat poetry and Abstract Expressionism; discussion of Betty Parsons and speaking about the "invisible" in art; thoughts about color and eidos in respect to Gaugin; working at Parsons; the importance of Ad Reinhardt's work; discussion of Romanticism. Tuttle also recalls Betty Parsons, Agnes Martin, Mark Rothko, Sam Wagstaff, A. Everett Austin, Herbert Vogel, Allen Ginsberg and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Richard Tuttle (1941- ) is a postminimalist artist and author in New York, N.Y. James McElhinney (1952- ) is a painter and educator of New York, N.Y.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Topic:

Artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Installations (Art)  Search this

Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Printmakers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Lichtenberg Family Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.tuttle16

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-tuttle16

Author:

Bijutsukan "Eki" KYOTO  Search this

Subject:

Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961 Homes and haunts  Search this

Physical description:

151 p. : col. ill., ports., maps ; 30 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Place:

France

Paris

Paris (France)

Date:

2007

C2007

20th century

Topic:

Painting  Search this

École de Paris  Search this

Intellectual life  Search this

Call number:

ND550 .P37 2007

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_849568

Editor:

Kikuchi Hiromi Kinen Tomo Bijutsukan  Search this

Author:

JAC Project  Search this

Physical description:

59 papges color illustrations 20 x 22 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Place:

Japan

Date:

2015

21st century

Topic:

Decorative arts--History  Search this

Call number:

NK1071 .K622 2015

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1116995