Katsuo Kuno gift of Kazuo Shibata paintings scrapbook and catalog, 1982

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Katsuo Kuno gift of Kazuo Shibata paintings scrapbook and catalog, 1982

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This collection comprises correspondence, clippings, business cards, photographs, and publications covering Katsuo Kuno's gift of 35 Kazuo Shibata paintings of Japanese national park scenes to the University of California, Irvine. These materials were originally collected in a scrapbook by Clayton Garrison of the School of Fine Arts, who handled the transfer of the gift in 1982. This collection also contains a bound catalog of Shibata's paintings which is annotated with each painting's location on the UCI campus.

0.2 linear feet; (1 box)

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University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6655916

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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University of California, Irvine

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The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine)is a public research university located in Irvine, California. It is one of the 10 campuses in the University of California (UC) system. UC Irvine offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and professional degrees. The university is classified as a Research I university and in 2017 had $361 million in research and development expenditures, according to the National Science Foundation. UC Irvine became a member of the Association of Am...

Kuno, Katsuo

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Garrison, Clayton

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Katsuo Kuno, a prominent farmer in the Nukata District of the Aichi Prefecture near Nagoya, Japan, donated the 35 Shibata paintings to the University of California, Irvine in 1982. There are two stories explaining his donation. One is that Kuno was a patient at the UCI Medical Center and made the gift in appreciation of the treatment he received there. The other is that the gift was in response to a post- WWII program headed by UCI Chancellor Dan Aldrich that brought Jap...

Shibata, Kazuo, 1915 or 6

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