Join the Archives of American Art during May to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! This month we're featuring the diaries of Reuben Tam, who was known as an abstract landscape painter and prolific diarist from 1932-1974. Take a look inside his 1962-1974 diary.
Join the Archives of American Art during May to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! This month we're featuring the diaries of Reuben Tam, who was known as an abstract landscape painter and prolific diarist from 1932-1974. Take a look inside his 1962-1974 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 other transcribed diaries on the Transcription Center!