TOMIYAMA TAEKO

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Description

Long Ago in Southern Seas II
Oil on canvas
29 1/8 x 40" (FRAMED)
2008
Long Ago in Southern Seas II is part of the series, Hiruko and the Puppeteers (2008), and is one of the largest and most ambitious of the artist's career sustaining her longstanding focus on transnational history, warfare, and Japan's brutal colonization of its Asian neighbors. Artist's signature at lower right.

Following traditional Japanese naming conventions, last name is provided first

Date

2008

Creator

TAEKO, Tomiyama
b. Japan, 1921-2021

Source

Gift of Sakata Natsume in memory of her mother Tomiyama Taeko

Identifier

2025.001.002

Citation

TAEKO, Tomiyama and b. Japan, 1921-2021, “TOMIYAMA TAEKO,” UCSB ADA Museum Omeka, accessed March 14, 2025, http://art-collections.museum.ucsb.edu/items/show/17108.