Gene Ritchie Monahan
Gene Ritchie Monahan was a northern Minnesotan portrait and landscape artist.
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Henrietta Barclay Paist
Multi-talented artist, designer, teacher, and author Henrietta Barclay Paist is perhaps best known for her china painting, a popular turn-of-the-century pastime.
Annetta Johnson Saint-Gaudens
Annetta Johnson Saint-Gaudens (1869-1943) was a sculptor, activist, and member of the Cornish Art Colony.
Gyo Fujikawa
Gyo Fujikawa (1908–98) was a prolific author, illustrator and designer of children’s books.
Ruth Asawa
Ruth Aiko Asawa (1926–2013) was a renowned sculptor, painter, and printmaker acclaimed for her biomorphic wire forms and public art installations as well as her activism in public art education.
Michi Hashimoto
Hashimoto was an oil and watercolor painter who also produced decorative screens, who exhibited widely in the 1920s and early 1930s in Southern California.
Miki Hayakawa
A prominent California oil painter and printmaker celebrated for her modernist forms and rich use of colors. Hayakawa was part of a fledgling Nisei art milieu that exhibited widely in the 1920s and 1930s.
Masumi Hayashi
Fine art photographer Masumi Hayashi (1945–2006) was best known for her series of panoramic photo-collages taken at ten of the former sites of World War II American concentration camps.
Hisako Hibi
Hisako Shimizu Hibi (1907–91) was an Issei painter and printmaker who exhibited throughout her career, and by the end of her life she was well entrenched in the San Francisco Bay Area arts community. During WWII, she produced a body of work reflecting life at the Topaz concentration camp in Utah, and taught at the Topaz Art School .
Emiko Nakano
Nisei painter, printer and freelance fashion illustrator