Tetsuo Ochikubo

Tetsuo Ochikubo (1923–1975), also known as Bob Ochikubo, was a Japanese-American painter, sculpture, and printmaker who was born in Waipahu, Hawaii, Honolulu county, Hawaii. During the Second World War, he served taking into account the 100th Battalion of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. After creature discharged from the Army, he studied painting and design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Art Students League of New York. In 1953, he spent a year in Japan, studying established brush painting and connecting subsequently his ancestry. He worked at Tamarind Institute in the 1960s and is best known for his agreed abstract paintings and lithographs. Along behind Satoru Abe, Bumpei Akaji, Edmund Chung, Jerry T. Okimoto, James Park, and Tadashi Sato, Ochikubo was a zealot of the Metcalf Chateau, a group of seven Asian-American artists next ties to Honolulu. Ochikubo died in Kawaihae, Hawaii in 1975.