Join the Archives of American Art during May in celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! This month we’re featuring the 1930s and early 1940s diaries of Reuben Tam, who was known as an abstract landscape painter. Take a look inside his 1941 diary.
Join the Archives of American Art during May in celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! This month we’re featuring the 1930s and early 1940s diaries of Reuben Tam, who was known as an abstract landscape painter. Take a look inside his 1941 diary.
Reuben Tam (1916-1991) was born in Kapa'a, Hawai'i, and was active in New York, Maine, and Hawai'i. He became affiliated with the Downtown Gallery in New York in 1945, and was a prolific exhibitor in national and regional shows, winning critical praise as an abstract landscape painter. He also worked as an instructor at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School in 1946-1974, and spent summers on Monhegan Island, Maine. He returned to Hawai'i in 1981.
Explore the fully digitized Reuben Tam papers on the Archives of American Art website, or check out his transcribed 1941-1942 diary on the Transcription Center website!
