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Harry Tsuchidana

Harry Suyemi Tsuchidana (born 1932) is a Japanese-American abstract painter from Waipahu, Hawaii. After graduating high school in 1952, he served the Marine Corps. He then studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., and in Brooklyn Museum Art School and the Pratt Contemporary Graphic Arts Center in New York City. While in New York, Tsuchidana worked as a watchman at the Museum of Modern art and ended up meeting fellow artists from Hawaii such as Tadashi Sato and Satoru Abe. In 1959, he was awarded a John Hay Whitney Fellowship which jump started his career in art.

Although primarily known as an abstract painter, Tsuchidana also made significant contributions to printmaking and photography. He is recognized for his monochromatic drawings and prints that cover the entire paper surface with lines of varying thicknesses, as well as his Stage Series, which features a single horizontal line connected by vertical lines to the edges of the painting. This series is characterized by its geometric and minimalist style and has engaged Tsuchidana for over forty years. His artwork is held in public collections at institutions such as the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, and the Museum of Friends in Walsenburg, Colorado, showcasing his impact on the contemporary art scene.

He was featured in the Honolulu Museum of Art show, Abstract Expressionism

Looking East from the far West in 2017 which featured American great artists such as Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock who were a part of “The Irascibles” along with The Metcalf Chateau group; seven Asian-American Hawaii artists.