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Mine Okubo

Mine Okubo (1912 - 2001) was active/lived in California.  Mine Okubo is known for Painting-mod townscape-genre, abstraction.

The following obituary is from The New York Times:

Miné Okubo, Whose Art Chronicled Internment Camps, Dies at 88
February 25, 2001, By ERIC PACE

Miné Okubo, a Japanese-American artist who recorded in 2,000 drawings
and a book what she saw and felt as an internee in American detention camps for Japanese and Japanese-Americans during World War II, died on Feb. 10 in Manhattan.  She was 88 and lived in Manhattan.

Miss Okubo, who pronounced her first name mee-neh, was one of 110,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans living in Western states who were evacuated from their homes early in 1942.  They were interned by the federal government as a precautionary measure, a move that has been much criticized.  Two- thirds of the internees were, like her, American citizens.

She was born to Japanese immigrant parents in Riverside, California.  Her father worked as a gardener. She received a master's degree in art from the Universit   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4718 characters.]  Artist bio

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