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Miné Okubo | |
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| Born | Miné Okubo June 27, 1912 |
| Known for | Drawing, Painting, Writing |
Miné Okubo (June 27, 1912 – February 10, 2001) was a notable artist during World War II, who produced over one thousand sketches of her time in the Japanese internment camps, many of which were turned into formal paintings, and winning many prizes. Her sketches and artworks gave many information on what is was like in the internment camps at the time.
Life
changeIn 1912, Miné Okubo was born in 1912 in Riverside, California. Her parents were both Japanese immigrants who had immigrated twelve years before. They worked in the St. Louis Exposition of Arts and Crafts; Okubo's mother being a calligrapher and her father being a scholar[1]. However, their life in America took a sudden turn by her mother raising seven children and her father becoming a gardener. She attended Riverside Junior College in 1931, Graduated UC Berkeley with Bachelor of Arts degree in art in 1935, and again with Master of Arts degree in art and anthropology the following year.[2] She was a recipient of the Berthat Taussig Traveling Art Fellowship, so she was able to study art during a two-year period in Europe. However, with the rise of Nazi Germany and the starting of World War II prompted her to escape back to the States when she still had six months left on her fellowship.[2]
After Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941 by Japan, President Roosevelt sent Japanese immigrants and their children to interment camps in the mid-West of the United States[1]. During Okubo's time in the internment camps, she drew sketches of how life was like in the interment camps which included day-to-day schedules such as having to share restrooms, being bored every day, and having to live in undesirable conditions[1]. She made over a thousand drawings, which she had compiled together into a novel called Citizen 13660. Citizen 13660 was published in 1946, and was the first primary source of the Japanese American internment camp experience.[2]
Miné Okubo is most known for her novel Citizen 13660, she was an important and prolific artist that kept drawing until her death in 2001.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kraut, Lauren (26 February 2022). "Miné Okubo and Citizen 13660". Daily Art Magazine.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Spring, Dr. Kelly A. "Miné Okubo (1912-2001)". National Women's History Museum.