After Hours: Art History Lecture


Kamekichi Tokita: Title unknown, 1930, Oil on canvas, Collection of Yoshiko Tokita-Schroder & Jerry Schroder

Painting Seattle’s Japantown 

In the decade before World War II, three first-generation Japanese artists were among Seattle’s leading modernist painters, lauded in the mainstream as well as the Japanese American community. The paintings of Kamekichi Tokita, Kenjiro Nomura, and Takuichi Fujii were shown frequently in the Northwest and throughout the West Coast, and chosen to represent Seattle in New York and Washington, DC. Working in an American realist style, the artists pictured the neighborhood where they lived and worked with a keen eye for the details of place as well the formal elements of painting. 

Art historian Barbara Johns is the curator of the exhibition "Side by Side" of these artists’ paintings from the 1930s, currently on view at the Wing Luke Museum. She will present their work at the height of their recognition and describe the profound disruption and loss brought by the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans on the West Coast. Step by step in recent years, their life stories and artistic achievement are being brought back to light. 

Wine and beverages available for purchase. 

Public: $15, Members: $10, Atelier: Free 

Doors open @6:00pm, lecture begins @6:15pm

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UPCOMING AFTER HOURS EVENTS
2025
Drink & Draw: Thursday, April 17 @Gage SLU
Art Lab: Thursday, May 22 @Gage GT
Art History Lecture: Thursday, June 19 @Gage SLU
Drink & Draw: Thursday, July 17 @Gage GT
Art Lab: Thursday, August 21 @Gage SLU