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Takao Tanabe (Takao Izumi) was born on 16 September, 1926 in Seal Cove, British Columbia, Canada, is a Canadian artist (born 1926). Discover Takao Tanabe'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 97 years old?

Popular As Takao Izumi
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Age 97 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 16 September, 1926
Birthday 16 September
Birthplace Seal Cove, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality Canada

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1926

Takao Tanabe, (born 16 September 1926) is a Canadian artist who painted abstractly for decades, but over time, his paintings became nature-based.

Born Takao Izumi in Seal Cove, today part of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, the son of a commercial fisherman, where he was the fifth of seven children.

Tanabe and his family were interned with other Japanese-Canadians in the British Columbia interior during World War II.

1942

They were relocated first to a camp at Hasting Park in Vancouver and Lemon Creek in the Kootenays in the summer of 1942, where they were expected to build their own internment camp.

1946

Tanabe attended the Winnipeg School of Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba (1946–1949), initially enrolling in a sign painting class as it would provide him with employable skills before becoming fascinated with art's potential outside of a commercial context.

Tanabe studied in this period with Joseph Plaskett, who introduced the young artist to the work of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse and became a friend of Tanabe's for life.

1950

In his "inscapes" (he called his paintings after a term used by Gerald Manley Hopkins) of the late 1950s, Tanabe explored his memories of lit interiors, painting them abstractly and expressing them with calligraphic signs.

His works of this period often blur the line between figurative and abstract painting.

1951

He then studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, New York City, New York with Hans Hofmann (1951) and Reuben Tam (1951-1952).

1952

Upon returning to Vancouver in 1952, Tanabe took up mural painting and completed his first commissioned work, a mural for the University of British Columbia Art Gallery entitled The World We Live In in 1953.

Tanabe received an Emily Carr Scholarship that same year; the news was delivered to him in a phone call from Lawren Harris.

1953

He went to the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, UK (1953–1954) and during that time travelled widely in Europe.

1959

From 1959 to 1960, he studied Sumi-e and calligraphy at Tokyo University in Japan on a Canada Council Scholarship.

His works are in public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Glenbow Museum, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

His art has gone through many different phases.

1960

Throughout the 1960s, he became well-established in the Vancouver art world and continued to exhibit his work across Canada, painting more large-scale murals in Ottawa, Winnipeg, Regina, and Edmonton.

1961

From 1961 to 1968, Tanabe taught at the Vancouver Art School.

1968

In 1968, he worked in Philadelphia, moving in 1969 to New York City where he lived until 1972.

In New York, he painted hard-edge geometric abstracts.

1973

From 1973, he was head of the art program and artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

By then, he consciously considered landscapes as a subject, while progressively eliminating references to the specific.

1980

In 1980, he returned to British Columbia where he lives and works on Vancouver Island.

He is considered today a painter who primarily evokes the landscape of British Columbia in minimalist but detailed paintings.

2005

In 2005, a major retrospective of his work curated by Ian Thom was organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and Vancouver Art Gallery.

2014

In 2014, Tanabe said:

"...I try to avoid brush marks so that it looks as though the paint has just floated on..."