George Miyasaki

George Joji Miyasaki (1935-2013) was a painter and printmaker lively in the abstract expressionist movement. He was born in Kalopa, Hawaii and moved to California in 1953. He customary a B.F.A. and a B.A.Ed. from the California College of the Arts in 1957 and an M.F.A. from the similar institution in 1958, studying under Richard Diebenkorn and Nathan Oliveira. After teaching at the California College of the Arts and Stanford University, he was appointed a full professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. In 1960, Willem de Kooning visited Miyasaki's studio to attempt his hand at lithography. De Kooning, with the assist of Miyasaki and Nathan Oliveira, created at least two abstract lithographs.

Miyasaki's paintings and lithographs from the 1950s, such as Green Landscape, in the deposit of the Honolulu Museum of Art, are typical of abstract expressionism. In the 1960s, his conduct yourself began to incorporate with ease definrd forms, an example of which is Red Eye from 1963. The Art Institute of Chicago, the British Museum (London), the Brooklyn Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City) are in the midst of the public collections holding play a role by George Miyasaki.