Ray Yoshida Papers, Correspondence with Ito, Miyoko, 1975-1983
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Born in Kapa'a, Hawai'i, in 1930, Ray Yoshida was a Japanese American painter, collagist, and educator based in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Hawai'i for two years and completed a B.A. in Arts Education at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1953. He also served in the U.S. Army for two years during the Korean War. In 1957 he recieved his M.F.A from Syracuse University and became a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1959. He was named Frank Harold Sellers Professor in the Department of Painting and Drawing in 1971, retired as professor emeritus in 1998, and continued to teach until 2003. Yoshida was a member of the Chicago Imagists, a loose and informal group of representational artists from the late 1960s to early 1970s who were influenced by Surrealism and connected to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Many of Yoshida's paintings and collages were also strongly influenced by comics as well as his own collection of folk and outsider art. Find transcription projects from the Ray Yoshida Papers here, and help us learn more about his personal and professional life.
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