Oral history interview with Frank S. Okada

Davis, Sammy, Jr., 1925-1990

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Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, dancer, actor, vaudevillian and comedian who has been called "the greatest entertainer ever to grace a stage in these United States." At age three, Davis began his career in vaudeville with his father Sammy Davis Sr. and the Will Mastin Trio, which toured nationally. After military service, he returned to the trio and became an overnight sensation following a nightclub performance at Ciro's (in West Hollywood) afte...

Kusama, Yayoi, 1929-

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Yayoi Kusama (born March 22, 1929, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan), Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, but is also active in painting, performance, film, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most i...

Cranbrook Academy of Art

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Ivey, William, 1919-1992

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Painter; Seattle, Wash. From the description of Oral history interview with William Ivey, 1983 May 24 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78707437 William Ivey (1919- ) is a painter from Seattle, Wash. From the description of Oral history interview with William Ivey, 1983 May 24-31 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397106 ...

Tsutakawa, George

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Sculptor; Seattle, Wash.; d. 1997. From the description of Oral history interview with George Tsutakawa, 1983 Sept. 8 - Sept. 19 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80973823 George Tsutakawa, d. 1997, Sculptor of Seattle, Wash. From the description of Oral history interview with George Tsutakawa, 1983 Sept. 8-19 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646401429 Sculptor, painter, teacher; Seattle, Wash.; b. 1910; d. 1997. ...

Okada, Frank S. (Frank Sumio), 1931-2000

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Painter; Seattle, Wash.; d. Oct. 29, 2000. Taught at Univ. of Oregon from 1969-1999. From the description of Oral history interview with Frank S. Okada, 1990 August 16-17 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82380202 Okada, Frank S., 1931-2000, Painter of Seattle, Wash. Taught at Univ. of Oregon from 1969-1999. From the description of Oral history interview with Frank S. Okada, 1990 Aug. 16-17 [sound ...

Derbyshire, Leon.

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Charles, Ray, 1930-2004

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Bunce, Louis, 1907-1983

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Louis Bunce (1907-1983) was a painter, printmaker, and educator from Portland, Or. From the description of Oral history interview with Louis Bunce, 1982 Dec. 3-Dec. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 458411214 Painter, printmaker, educator, mural painter; Portland, Or. Died 1983. From the description of Oral history interview with Louis Bunce, 1965 Oct. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397849 From the description of Louis Bunce interviews, 1965 Oct....

Dusanne, Zoe, -1977

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Okada, John

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Johns, Barbara A.

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Chin, Frank, 1940-....

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Frank Chin (1940- ) was born in Berkeley, California, on February 25, 1940. After attending the University of California, Berkeley and Iowa State University, he earned his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1965. Frank Chin worked in railroads. His career includes stints as a writer, editor, and free-lance consultant and lecturer on Chinese Americans and racism. He was a film consultant and lectured and taught creative writing in the late 1960s and 1970s at San Francisco S...

Cornish School of Allied Arts (Seattle, Wash.)

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Founded in 1914 by Nellie C. Cornish as the Cornish School of Music, the Cornish School of Allied Arts quickly became established as the first school in the western United States to offer comprehensive training in all of the arts. Nellie Cornish sought to educate artists through exposure to all art forms and within the first few years of the school's existence she had expanded the curriculum to offer courses in dance, visual arts, theater and design. She recruited a wide...

University of Oregon. Center for Teaching Writing

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The Univeristy of Oregon was established on October 19, 1872 and began classes on October 16, 1876. In 1915 there were 119 professors and instructors; by 1934 that number had grown to over 174 faculty. From the guide to the Faculty bulletins and scrapbooks, 1914-1934, (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries) The High School debating league was started by the Oregon Teacher Association. The University of Oregon contributed by publishing th...

Nomura, Kenjiro, 1896-1956.

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Horiuchi, Paul, 1906-1999

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Paul Chikamasa Horiuchi (1906-1999) artist. Horiuchi was born in Japan in 1906 and learned calligraphy and sumi techniques as a child. In late 1920, he departed for America and found work with the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming, using his mother's maiden name of Kamakura, where his father was already an employee. Paul Horiuchi held that job for 20 years. In 1946 he moved to Seattle to study with Zen Master, Tamotsu Takazaki, who introduced him to Mark Tobey. Horiuchi completed his first colla...

Peck, James Edward, 1907-

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Inada, Lawson Fusao

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Jones, Quincy, 1933-....

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An impresario in the broadest and most creative sense of the word, Quincy Jones' career has encompassed the roles of composer, record producer, artist, film producer, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, television producer, record company executive, magazine founder and multi-media entrepreneur. As a master inventor of musical hybrids, he has shuffled pop, soul, hip-hop, jazz, classical, African and Brazilian music into many dazzling fusions, traversing virtually every medium, including record...

Martin, David Stone

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Illustrator; New York, N.Y. Born 1913. From the guide to the David Stone Martin posters, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.) Illustrator; New York, N.Y. Born 1913. Died 1992. From the description of David Stone Martin papers, 1939-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515853 Illustrator; New York, N.Y. Born 1913. From the description of David Stone Martin posters. (New York Public Library). W...

Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969

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Painter, photographer; Roosevelt, N.J. From the description of Ben Shahn interview, 1964 Apr. 14 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82606033 Artist Ben Shahn was a Russian Jewish immigrant to New York. He apprenticed with a lithographer, studied at several New York colleges, and toured Europe, acquiring the skills to express his artistic ability. He is chiefly remembered as a muralist, painter, photographer, and printmaker, visually chronicling America during ...

Tobey, Mark

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Painter; Abstract Expressionist. Also worked as fashion illustrator, portrait painter. Born in Wisconsin, December 11, 1892. Died 1976. Worked in Chicago, Seattle, Basel, Switzerland; New York, N.Y., Dartington Hall, Devonshire, England, and Paris. Convert to Baha'i religion. From the description of Mark Tobey papers, [ca. 1920]-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78566820 Tobey was a painter; Seattle, Wash. Corle was at one time a New York City stage actress and wife of no...