Art Archive
Oil on canvas, 72” x 84”. Collection of Gail & John Enns I was asked to do a couple of paintings for a show curated by Noriko Gambling at The Long Beach Museum of Art. I had already done a very large chicken cage and while working on it I realized how much it […]
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Oil on wood box, 18” x 24”. Unknown location. These painted boxes (I did between 5 & 10) were done on paintboxes discarded by my students at The Catholic University of America. The sizes varied a bit but were generally about 18 inches tall. Some are cut like a woodblock print and then painted. The […]
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Oil on wood box, 16” x 24”. Unknown location.
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Oil and gilding on canvas, 36” x 48”. Unknown location.
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Oil & gilding on byõbu, 18” x 144”. @Bernice Steinbaum.
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Oil & gilding on byõbu, 14” x 36”. Collection of Sarah Cohen. i was always fascinated by Queequeg. He filled the bill for what men once called a noble savage. With his tattooed face he seemed more like Moby than like his fellow sailors. He was really much more part of nature and more kin […]
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Oil & gilding on byõbu, 14” x 48”.
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Oil & gilding on byõbu, 18” x 144”. Bernice Steinbaum collection. My friend Marty Amt rescued these wooden cores for this byobu from the dumpster behind the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery. The were sugi (Japanese cedar) at least 200 years old and they sat inside a beautiful black lacquer box. The cores are the skeleton of […]
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Intaglio on handmade paper, 22” x 30”. Artist’s collection. In 1989 & 1990 Helen Frederick kindly offered me a kind of residency at Pyramid Atlantic Center for Paper, Print and the Book. Every Thursday night my Assistant Takako Nagai & I would go to Tacoma Park to work on prints. I did this intaglio called […]
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Graphite on paper, 40” x 30”. Unknown location. I’m not sure but this my be in The Yamanashi Museum of Art in Koch Japan. This was one of the many “scribble” drawings I did for my solo show there in 1988.
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Tom Nakashima 