Arthur Okamura
Visual Artist
1932 – 2009
Who was Arthur Okamura?
Arthur Okamura was an American artist, working in screen printing, drawing and painting. He lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, and was Professor Emeritus at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California. His work is in the permanent collections at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum in New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is associated with the San Francisco Renaissance. He illustrated numerous works of literature and poetry, published a book on games and toys for children, and created illustrations for the TV movie The People.
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- Born
- Feb 24, 1932
Long Beach - Education
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Employment
- California College of the Arts
- Died
- Jul 10, 2009
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on July 23, 2013
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