Fumiko Kimura

born Rexburg, Idaho, 1929; died Tacoma, Washington, 2023

BiographyFumiko Kimura received her B.S. in Chemistry and her Master’s degree in Art Education from the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma. She also studied at Kyoto Nanga School and the Senju-in Zen Temple in Akita, Japan. She is a co-founder of Puget Sound Sumi Artists and her work can be found in numerous private and public regional collections including the Microsoft Art collection, Columbia Bank, Pierce County Library and the University of Puget Sound among others. She also has exhibited extensively throughout the region. In 2020 she published a book on her life and artistic career Persimmon and Frog: My Life and Art, A Kibei-Nisei Story of Self-Discovery. Kimura is a master at the art of sumi painting and also works in watercolor and mixed media.

[source: interviews with the artist, artist’s webpage]

For additional information and artworks, visit: https://sumi.org/fumiko-kimura/
[accessed Feb 2021]

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