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.

Collection comprised of 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. Collection materials have been removed from the original scrapbook for preservation purposes and are in the original order of the scrapbook.

0.2 linear feet (1 box)

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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...

Online Archive of California

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Kuno, Katsuo

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Shibata, Kazuo, 1915 or 6

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