Miki Hayakawa (June 7, 1899 – March 6, 1952) was a Japanese-American painter and printmaker.
Miki Hayakawa | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 7, 1899 |
| Died | March 6, 1953 (aged 53) |
| Notable work | Portrait of a Negro |
She was a portraitist and landscape artist working and exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work is associated with the American modernist movement, often featuring bright colors and looser brushstrokes.[1]
Early life
editHayakawa was born in Hokkaido, Japan, in 1899 and immigrated to Oakland, California, with her mother in 1908.[2] Her father, a pastor, had arrived the year before.[3]
Work
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In the 1920s, Hayakawa trained at the School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts and at the California School of Fine Arts.
In San Francisco, she adopted a cubist style and a modernist sensibility about color.[2]
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, she exhibited her work at local institutions such as the Los Angeles Museum (1927, 1936), the San Francisco Museum of Art (1935), the Foundation of Western Art, Los Angeles (1937), and the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939).
While Hayakawa's parents were incarcerated at a number of internment camps during World War II, there are no records of her having been incarcerated in a War Relocation Authority or Department of Justice camp.[2] She is believed to have moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, around 1942.[3] She worked and exhibited in Santa Fe, adopting elements from her new environment into her portraits and landscapes, until her death from cancer in 1953.[2]
Collections
editPersonal life
editHayakawa married artist Preston McCrossen in 1947.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Portrait of a Negro | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
- ^ a b c d e "Miki Hayakawa". Densho Encyclopedia. February 12, 2024. Retrieved March 27, 2024.
- ^ a b "Miki Hayakawa: Painting in Place | The Huntington". huntington.org. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
- ^ "Miki Hayakawa | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ Swauger, James L. (1964). "Rock Art in the Navajo Reservoir District. Polly Schaafsma. Navajo Project Studies VI, Publication No. 7 of the Museum of New Mexico Papers in Anthropology. The Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1963. 74 pp., 58 figs. $3.00". American Antiquity. 30 (1): 113–114. doi:10.2307/277654. ISSN 0002-7316. JSTOR 277654.