Natsumi kanemitsu biography channel

The son of Japanese immigrants, Matsumi Kanemitsu was born in in Ogden, Utah, but spent his childhood with his grandparents in Hiroshima, Japan.

Natsumi kanemitsu biography channel

He moved back to the United States in and joined the U.S. Army in , but the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor soon led to his arrest and confinement in detention camps.

Devastating as that experience must have been, Kanemitsu began drawing with art supplies provided by the American Red Cross and eventually made his way to Europe as a military hospital assistant.

After his tour of duty ended in , he stayed in Europe for two years, studying with Fernand Leger in Paris, meeting other prominent artists, including Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, and visiting art museums.

Kanemitsu returned to the United States in and plunged into New York’s postwar art scene, famously populated by artists such as Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, John Chamberlain, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns and dealer Leo Castelli.

But as