Tom w/ Matisse ‘Bathers by a River’. The Art Institute of Chicago.
. Tom often cites this 1917 painting by Matisse (with a nod to Cezanne’s ‘Large Bathers” 1905) as a major inspiration both thematically and compositionally.
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“Day of the Arrows” 1990 – oil and gilding on canvas “114 x 168” – rolled and shipped by art handlers from the studio in Floyd, VA to The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts collection in Richmond, VA.
‘HANFORD K EAST’ _ 2025 September
In the studio; 2025.
“Shadows From The Past” 2021
Shadows from the Past Walkthrough with Curator Gail Enns from Monterey Museum of Art on Vimeo.(CLICK TITLE OR “READ MORE” TO PLAY VIDEO)
Read MoreVideo Interview with Tom Nakashima | Terzo Piano | Wash, D.C. April 2021 (click title or “read more” to play video)
Studio Tour, January 28, 2021
“Tule Lake Martyr: for Ted Nakashima” 2020
6″x 4″, mixed media on accordion fold sketchbook.
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Tom Nakashima on Vimeo. (click image to view player)
Read More“Octopus Tree Pile” 2018
Oil on canvas. Artist’s Collection. This tree pile was kind of a sidetrack I took to get me back Into a more expressionistic way of painting. I wanted get back to real painting and be less tied into content. So when this piece started to look more like tentacles than trees I […]
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