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| | Born in Hiroshima, Japan on Sept. 29, 1892. Utsunomiya (né Utsumiya) immigrated to northern California in 1919. After a few years in Watsonville, he moved to San Francisco and worked as an artist for the Federal Art Project. At the onset of WWII he was interned in a relocation camp in Heart Mountain Center in Wyoming. After the war he settled in Sacramento where he was naturalized and remained until his demise on Dec. 20, 1958. Exh: Santa Cruz Art League, 1934; SFAA, 1936; Oakland Art Gallery, 1937. | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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