Henry Sugimoto: Painting an American Experience

Henry Sugimoto: Painting an American Experience by Kim, Kristine. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781890771430.

First-ever survey of this remarkable artist Henry Sugimoto began life as the grandson of a displaced samurai and died in 1990 an American painter. From his early years in California, Paris, and Mexico to the transformative impact of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, Sugimotos art became a vivid expression of the American immigrant experience. Henry Sugimoto is the first-ever survey of this relatively unknown but remarkable artist. From the early work influenced by the European impressionists and post-impressionists to the later work that extensively documents and interprets the experiences of Japanese Americans behind barbed wire, this is a stunning body of work. Published in conjunction with the Japanese American National Museum