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Ben Kamihira

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Ben Kamihira (1925 - 2004) was active/lived in Pennsylvania / Spain.  Ben Kamihira is known for Nude figure, landscape, still life, and portrait painting, lithographs, teaching.

Following is the obituary of the artist, Submitted to askART by M.D. Silverbrooke, from the Philadelphia Inquirer, February 29, 2004.

   
Ben Kamihira, 78, Painter, Art Teacher
 
Ben Kamihira, 78, critically acclaimed figurative painter and longtime teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, died of cancer Wednesday at home in Northern Liberties.
 
Mr. Kamihira's paintings, which hang in major museums throughout the world, reflect poetic fantasy and joyless moods.

The son of Japanese immigrants, Mr. Kamihira was born on a farm in Yakima, Wash. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, his family was sent to a relocation camp and later to eastern Oregon to pick sugar beets. From 1944 to 1946, he served in the Army's Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy.

While overseas, his wife Elizabeth Hetherington Spencer Kamihira said, "he was able, for the first time in his life, to go to a museum and receiv   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5845 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Ben Kamihira

   Publications  Book References:  21
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Ben Kamihira
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Artist Nuts and Bolts August 2003 Baxter, Kathleen Yes
21 Book References for Ben Kamihira
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Ward, John L American Realist Painting 1945-1980 431 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Mecklenburg, Virginia Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1982 Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960
(Exhibition catalog)		 195 Yes
1981 Goodyear, Frank H, Jr. Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts) 255 Yes
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Goodyear, Frank Henry Seven on the Figure: September 20-December 16, 1979 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts---Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1969 Philbrook Art Center The American Sense of Reality
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 No
1962 Goodrich, Lloyd/Edward Bryant Forty Artists under Forty From the Whitney Museum of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1962 Museum of Modern Art Recent Painting U S A / The Figur
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 No
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