SERISAWA, Sueo (1910)
Birth place: Yokohama, Japan

Addresses: Seattle; Long Beach, CA, 1921; NYC; Los Angeles, CA

Profession: Painter, mural painter, printmaker, teacher

Studied: With Yoichi Serisawa (father) & George Baker; Otis AI, 1932-33; AIC; in NY with Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Exhibited: Oakland Art Gal., 1939; Foundation Western Art, 1940 (prize); Calif. State Fair, 1940 (prize); Los Angeles Mus. Hist., Science & Art, 1941 (solo); PAFA Ann., 1947 (Carol H. Beck Gold Medal), 1949, 1951; Corcoran Gal biennials, 1947, 1949, 1961; CPLH, 1948; Dayton, OH, Inst. of Art; Dalzell Hatfield Gal, Los Angeles; Scripps College, Claremont; Pasadena Mus.; MMA, 1950 (purchase award); AIC; LACMA, 1941, 1950 (purchase prize), 1956 (purchase prize), 1957 (purchase prize); San Diego FA Soc.; Denver Art Mus.; SFMA; CI, 1952; Tokyo Int., Japan, 1952; Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil, 1955; WMAA,1958, 1960; Pacific Heritage, U.S. State Dept., Berlin, Germany, 1965; Occidental College, Laguna Beach (retrospective); Serisawa Gal, Los Angeles, 1970s.

Member: Foundation of Western Art; Calif. WC. Soc. (pres.); Laguna Beach AA

Work: MMA; LACMA; Santa Barbara Mus. Art; Pasadena AM; San Diego MA; Smithsonian Inst.

Comments: Came to Seattle in 1918. His family moved East during WWII to avoid the California internment camps, but he returned to Southern Calif. in 1947. Preferred media: oils. Teaching: Kann Inst. Art, 1948-51; Scripps College, 1949-50; Claremont Grad. School; U.S.C. Summer School, Idyllwild; Laguna Beach School of Art.

Sources: WW73; WW47; Arthur Millier, Inner Development of Artists," Am. Artist (1950); Ed Biberman, "20 artists" (film), Los Angeles Mus. & Univ. Calif., Los Angeles, 1970; Joe Mugnaini, Oil painting techniques and materials (1969) & Logics of drawing (1973, Reinholt); "Modernism in California Printmaking," (Nov. 1998, Annex Gal., Santa Rosa, CA); Falk, Exh. Record Series.

 

This biography is drawn from the "Who Was Who in American Art" , the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.