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Fokko Tadama

Fokko Tadama (1871 - 1937) was active/lived in Washington.  Fokko Tadama is known for Genre, portrait painting.

The following information was submitted in April of 2006 by David F. Martin:
Born in Bandar, India of Dutch parents, Tadama received his training at the Academy of Fine Arts, Amsterdam and the Rijks Museum School of Art, in addition to private instruction in Holland.  The Tadama family estate at Katwijk aan Zee in Holland was an idyllic setting for the artist and his wife, Tarmine Groenveld (1871-1938), a well-known marine painter.  Both artists were very successful and sold numerous paintings of popular Dutch seascapes both in Holland and for the export market. Unfortunately, within a few years of their marriage, Groenveld had to be permanently institutionalized for acute psychological disorders.

Distraught, Tadama left his native country and family to begin a new life and emigrated to Seattle, via Paris and New York, around 1910.  Arriving with a  European exhibition history, he held his first one-man show in Seattle in 1913 at the Seattle Public Library   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2105 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Research resources

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