Lynn Schmidt interviews with Isamu Noguchi and Tom Nakashima
The Lynn Schmidt interviews with Isamu Noguchi and Tom Nakashima measure 0.9 linear feet and date from 1980 to 1990. The collection consists of recorded interviews with Isamu Noguchi that were conducted 9 July and 5 August 1980 in his studio (now the Noguchi Museum), in Long Island City, N.Y.; as well as interviews with Tom Nakashima, conducted 31 July 1989 to 10 March 1990.
Roy Leeper and Gaylord Hall collection of Miné Okubo papers
The Roy Leeper and Gaylord Hall collection of Miné Okubo papers measure 1.4 linear feet and date from circa 1940 to 2001. Roy Leeper and Gaylord Hall were long-time friends with and patrons of Okubo from the late 1950s until her death. The collection contains letters, writings, and sketches by Okubo. Among the printed materials is a copy of the 1944 special edition of Fortune magazine which was sympathetic to Japanese Americans interned during World War II and for which Okubo was hired to illustrate. Also found are scattered documents relating to Hall and Leeper.
Website Records
This accession consists of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center website as it existed on July 15, 2019. The website includes information about exhibitions, experiences, and initiatives organized by the Center related to Asian Pacific American history, art, and culture as well as online exhibitions. The website also includes two embedded blogs …
Website Records
This accession consists of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center website as it existed on December 26, 2019. The website includes information about exhibitions, experiences, and initiatives organized by the Center related to Asian Pacific American history, art, and culture as well as online exhibitions. The website also includes two embedded blogs …
Website Records
This accession consists of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center website as it existed on March 8, 2017. The website includes information about exhibitions and experiences organized by the Center related to Asian Pacific American history, art, and culture as well as online exhibitions. The website also includes two embedded blogs. "Pickles …
Oral history interview with Maya Ying Lin
Brown, Robert F.
An interview of Maya Ying Lin conducted 1983 Mar. 6, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art. Lin speaks of a funerary architecture seminar she took at Yale University; entering her design in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund's competition; attempts to add a figured sculpture and a flagpole to her …
Manuela Fuller photographs of textiles and scenes from Sind and Baluchistan
Mounted exhibit photographs and photographs used in the catalog for the "Folk Craft of Baluchistan and Sind" exhibit, co-written by Neyyar Hassan, at the Pakistan-American Cultural Centre in Karachi, Pakistan, 1968. The collection mostly consists of images of highly decorated textiles and clothing from Sind and Baluchistan, Pakistan, as well as …
Oral history interview with Frank S. Okada
Johns, Barbara
An interview of Frank Okada conducted 1990 Aug. 16-17, in Seattle, Wash., by Barbara Johns, for the Archives of American Art Northwest Asian American Project. Okada discusses his parents' background; his family including his brothers, John, author of "No-No Boy," and Charlie, a graphic designer; traveling to Japan for the Pacific Northwest …
George Tsutakawa in Japan video project
The George Tsutakawa in Japan video project measures 4 linear feet and contains unedited video recordings of Tsutakawa's return trip to his childhood home in central Japan. The recordings, made by the West Coast Regional Center of the Archives of American Art in 1988, were subsequently edited into the 23-minute documentary George Tsutakawa: An Artist's Pilgrimage, also included in this collection.
Kamekichi Tokita Papers
bulk 1900-1948
The personal papers of Seattle area painter Kamekichi Tokita (1897-1948) measure 1.5 linear feet and date from circa 1900 to circa 2010 with the bulk of the material dating from circa 1910 to 1948. The papers include biographical materials, including documents about the closing of the War Relocation Authority's Minidoka Camp in Idaho; correspondence; three diaries written in Japanese documenting Tokita's war time experiences and forced relocation to Minidoka, two earlier notebooks, also written in Japanese, and scattered notes; a few personal business records; printed materials; one scrapbook; sketches; and one family photograph album.
