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He immigrated directly to New York at the age of sixteen in 1917, where he joined the Art Students League and studied with\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Yasuo_Kuniyoshi/\" title=\"Yasuo Kuniyoshi\">\n Yasuo Kuniyoshi\n </a>\n , while also studying art at Columbia University throughout the 1920s. Tsuzuki participated in the annual exhibitions of the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, and Anderson Galleries, all of New York, along with fellow Japanese artists such as Noboru Foujioka, Eitaro Ishigaki, Torajiro Watanabe, and Yoshida Sekido. He eventually became the co-director of the Salons of America with Kuniyoshi.\n </p>\n <p>\n In 1932, he moved to California with his wife and daughter to become a caretaker of an estate in San Mateo. After the signing of\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Executive_Order_9066/\" title=\"Executive Order 9066\">\n Executive Order 9066\n </a>\n that authorized the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans living on the West Coast, he and his family were incarcerated at\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Tanforan_(detention_facility)/\" title=\"Tanforan (detention facility)\">\n Tanforan\n </a>\n Assembly Center and then at\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Topaz/\" title=\"Topaz\">\n Topaz\n </a>\n in Utah, where he taught at the camp\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Tanforan/Topaz_Art_School/\" title=\"Tanforan/Topaz Art School\">\n art school\n </a>\n with\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Chiura_Obata/\" title=\"Chiura Obata\">\n Chiura Obata\n </a>\n and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/George_Matsusaburo_Hibi/\" title=\"George Matsusaburo Hibi\">\n George Matsusaburo Hibi\n </a>\n . In camp, he created a series of paintings that depict daily life in camp and people engaged in everyday activities such as doing laundry and playing\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Shogi/\" title=\"Shogi\">\n shogi\n </a>\n </i>\n , all against the backdrop of the harsh desert prison. After the war, he returned to New York where he worked as a dental technician and continued to paint until his death at the age of sixty-six.\n </p>\n <p>\n He died in September 1967 in New York City, New York.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Patricia_Wakida/\" title=\"Patricia Wakida\">\n Patricia Wakida\n </a>\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Wakida, Patricia\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n For More Information\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Chang, Gordon H., Mark Dean Johnson, and Paul J. Karlstrom, editors.\n <i>\n Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970\n </i>\n . Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008.\n </p>\n <p>\n 'The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945\n <i>\n . Los Angeles: Japanese American National Museum, UCLA Wight Art Gallery, and UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1992.\n </i>\n </p>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20240821175749\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.008 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.010 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 128/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 1952/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 253/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 5.431 1 -total\n 45.22% 2.456 1 Template:Databox-People\n 26.77% 1.454 1 Template:Published\n 26.35% 1.431 1 Template:AuthorByline\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:1580-0!canonical and timestamp 20240821175749 and revision id 36850\n -->\n </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n </i>\n Top\n </a>\n</div>", "categories": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/categories/Arts/", "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/categories/People/" ], "sources": [], "coordinates": {}, "authors": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/authors/Patricia%20Wakida/" ], "ddr_topic_terms": [], "prev_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/By%20the%20Hands%20of%20a%20Working%20Man:%20A%20Japanese%20Background,%20a%20Mexican%20Childhood,%20an%20American%20Life%20(book)/", "next_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Cable%20Act/" }{ "url_title": "Byron Takashi Tsuzuki", "title_sort": "tsuzukibyrontakashi", "links": { "json": "