`Captive Artist: Watercolors by Kakunen Tsuruoka` on view at Scholten Japanese Art
(Artdaily.org)

Scholten Japanese Art is presenting Captive Artist: Watercolors by Kakunen Tsuruoka (1892–1977), an exhibition featuring landscape paintings produced while the artist was confined to Poston Camp III, part of the Colorado River Relocation Center in Arizona and one of the ten camps to which Japanese-Americans were forcibly relocated during the Second World War. While the focus of the installation will be on Kakunen’s poignant paintings of the bleak and barren landscape surrounding the camp, the gallery will also offer a selection of Kakunen’s original paintings and four shin hanga-style limited-edition prints depicting subjects unrelated to his time at Poston. The entire collection of works by Kakunen are from the Estate of Haruno Tsuruoka (1924–2017), the artist’s daughter-in-law, and is being offered by members of her family who provided materials to supplement glimpses of his extraordinary li