1950s Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting by Tetsuo Ochikubo, Framed

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Oil painting by Tetsuo Ochikubo entitled Impersonal Tones
Krasner Gallery (Oscar Krasner)
1061 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Large mid … Read more Oil painting by Tetsuo Ochikubo entitled Impersonal Tones
Krasner Gallery (Oscar Krasner)
1061 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Large mid century nonobjective abstract oil painting.
Dimensions without frame: 40 x 30 x .5

About the Artist:
Tetsuo Ochikubo (1923–1975), also known as Bob Ochikubo, was a Japanese-American painter, sculpture, and printmaker who was born in Waipahu, Hawaii, Honolulu county, Hawaii. During the Second World War, he served with the 100th Battalion of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.[1] After being discharged from the Army, he studied painting and design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Art Students League of New York. In 1953, he spent a year in Japan, studying traditional brush painting and connecting with his ancestry.[2] He worked at Tamarind Institute in the 1960s and is best known for his entirely abstract paintings and lithographs.[3] Along with Satoru Abe, Bumpei Akaji, Edmund Chung, Jerry T. Okimoto, James Park, and Tadashi Sato, Tetsuo Ochikubo was a member of the Metcalf Chateau, a group of seven Asian-American artists with ties to Honolulu.[4] Ochikubo died in Kawaihae, Hawaii in 1975. (Credit: Wikipedia) See less