Ben Kamihira

Ben Kamihira (1925-2004)

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11" x 11.5" Etching 1950

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Ben Kamahira was born March 16, 1925 in Yakima (WA). Hewas interned with his Japanese-born parents at the beginning of World War II, then drafted into the U.S. Army. On the GI Bill he attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he studied with Walter Stuempfig and Francis Speight. Kamihira has taught at the Pennsylvania Academy and Pennsylvania State University, and he served as artist-in-residence at Rice University in Houston. His aesthetic roots can be traced to the Venetian masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—Veronese, Tintoretto, Guardi—and his early landscapes, figural subjects, and religious themes reflect his interest in Baroque compositional devices. Yet Kamihira is also indebted to recent movements. His abiding interest in dramatic lighting and surface textures—he executes satins and brocades with exquisite attention to tactile effects—and his use of illogical viewpoints and spatial arrangements suggest links with European Surrealism of the 1930s.
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He was a master of illusionistic rendering of surfaces-- as seen in this oil on canvas entitled "Miyo"

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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded: Ben Kamihira, Painter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1955, 1956.(Source: wikipedia.org)

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For an art school whose alumni include the likes of Thomas Eakins, Cecilia Beaux, Alice Ned, and more recently, Bo Bartlett, identifying one former student to single out for recognition is daunting to say the least. But the Pennsylvania Academy Alumni Association, of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, met the challenge, and this year presented Ben Kamihira with the first Distinguished Alumni Award at the academy's graduation.

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Book References:

Year	Author	Title
2005	AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)	The Artists Bluebook
2005	Davenport, Ray	Davenport's Art Reference:
1999	Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)	Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975
1997	Marquis Who's Who	Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1993	Bowker R R	Who's Who in American Art-1993-1994
1989	Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)	* Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1989	Fresella-Lee, Nancy	The American Paintings (in the)
1989	Ward, John L	American Realist Painting 1945-1980
1988	Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy	The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1987	Cummings, Paul	Dictionary of Contemporary...
1987	Mecklenburg, Virginia	* Modern American Realism
1986	Jaques Cattell Press	Who's Who in American Art-1986
1982	Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler	* Realism and Realities
1981	Goodyear, Frank H, Jr.	Contemporary American Realism Since 1960
1979	Goodyear, Frank Henry	* Seven on the Figure: September 20-December 16, 1979
1979	Brooklyn Museum	American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum
1976	Jaques Cattell Press	Who's Who in American Art, 1976
1974	Baur, John I H	Whitney Museum of American Art
1969	Philbrook Art Center	* The American Sense of Reality
1962	Museum of Modern Art	* Recent Painting U S A / The Figur
1962	Goodrich, Lloyd/Edward Bryant

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