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Title
Masonite
Creator
Kuramatsu, Geichiro Kare: artist
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1943
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Restrictions may apply. For more information see http://library.sonoma.edu/specialcollections/usingcollections/rights/
Description
Oil Painting no. 1 of 2 "Masonite" by Geichiro Kare Kuramatsu. "Geichiro (Ernest) Kare Kuramatsu was born in Japan in 1885 to a Russian mother and Japanese father. The family moved to Canada, and Ernest saw combat while serving with the Canadian Army in France during World War I. He completed this oil painting in 1943 while incarcerated at the Granada (Amache) camp. Mr. Kuramatsu received art training at the University of Minnesota and was living near Carmel, California and working with noted seascape artist Paul Dougherty at the outbreak of WW II. Following Franklin D. Roosevelt's issuance of Executive Order 9066 in Feb. 1942, Kuramatsu was confined at the Merced Assembly Center and then sent to Amache in the southeastern desert of Colorado. At Amache, he lived next door to Henry and Ann Fujita from Petaluma, California. Ann was an amateur artist who admired Kuramatsu’s work. He presented these two oil paintings to her as gifts in 1943. "
The Gaye LeBaron Collection houses the research material of newspaper columnist Gaye LeBaron, relating to the North Bay region of California. Files hold support materials for more than 8,200 newspaper columns written for The Press Democrat newspaper in Santa Rosa, California. Included are research notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, monographs, local documents, journal issues, photographs, oral histories, and ephemera.
Type
image
Format
Paintings
color, 15.5 x 20.3 cm
application/pdf
Identifier
lp028-08-007
ssu_lp_0007
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/574
Subject
Arts and literature--Visual arts--Painting
World War II--Incarceration camps
World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees
Place
Amache, Colorado
Incarceration Camps--Granada (Amache)
Source
Sonoma State University Library, Rohnert Park, California;
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Gaye LeBaron Collection

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