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Matsumi Kanemitsu was born on 28 May, 1922 in Japan, is a Japanese-American painter. Discover Matsumi Kanemitsu's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Born 28 May, 1922
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Date of death 1992
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1922

Matsumi "Mike" Kanemitsu (May 28, 1922- May 11, 1992) was a Japanese-American painter who was also proficient in Japanese style sumi and lithography.

Kanemitsu was born to Japanese parents in Ogden, Utah on May 28, 1922.

At age three, he was taken to Japan and grew up in a suburb of Hiroshima with his grandparents.

1940

He returned to the United States in 1940 and enlisted in the United States Army in 1941 at Fort Douglas, at which point he renounced his Japanese citizenship and became solely an American citizen.

He was arrested after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and interned.

While interned, he began drawing with supplies provided by the American Red Cross.

After his release, Kanemitsu enlisted in the Army and served as a hospital assistant in Europe.

1946

In 1946, he was discharged from the Army and undertook formal art education with Fernand Léger in Paris, with Karl Metzler in Baltimore, and with Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the Art Students League of New York beginning in 1951.

Among the jobs he took to support himself while in art school was a position as director of entertainment in a Baltimore gambling hall, where he oversaw the striptease dancers.

While at the Art Students League he associated with artists such as Paul Jenkins, Warren Brandt, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, and others.

1950

In the 1950s and early 60s he received two Longview Foundation awards and a Ford Foundation Fellowship to practice lithography at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles.

Though he painted representational works in the early 1950s, Kanemitsu is generally considered a second-generation abstract expressionist.

Later in the 1950s, with the support of Frank O'Hara and Harold Rosenberg, he was able to show his work at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Radich Gallery.

1958

By 1958 he was firmly entrenched in abstract expressionism and was close with Norman Bluhm.

1961

He moved to Los Angeles in 1961, in part due to his dislike of the rise of Pop Art in New York, and was on the faculty of Chouinard Art Institute from 1965 to 1970, California Institute of the Arts from 1970 to 1971, and the Otis College of Art and Design from 1971 to 1983.

1967

He is best known for his non-objective paintings, which are often hard-edge, such as Landscape, from 1967, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art.

1990

In 1990, along with fellow artist Nancy Uyemura and two dealers from Japan, he opened Gallery IV, which showed both local Los Angeles artists and Japanese artists.

1992

Kanemitsu died of lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles on May 11, 1992.

2018

In 2018, Kanemitsu's former home at 800 Traction Avenue in Los Angeles was set to be landmarked by the city, but controversy erupted over the erasure of its history as the home of a number of Japanese-American artists, including Kanemitsu.