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Kuno (Katsuo) Gift of Kazuo Shibata paintings scrapbook and catalog
AS.038
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: Katsuo Kuno gift of Kazuo Shibata paintings scrapbook and catalog
Creator:
Garrison, Clayton
Identifier/Call Number: AS.038
Physical Description:
0.2 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1982
Abstract: This collection comprises correspondence, clippings, business cards, photographs, and publications covering Katsuo Kuno's
gift of 35 Kazuo Shibata paintings of Japanese national park scenes to the University of California, Irvine. These materials
were originally collected in a scrapbook by Clayton Garrison of the School of Fine Arts, who handled the transfer of the gift
in 1982. This collection also contains a bound catalog of Shibata's paintings which is annotated with each painting's location
on the UCI campus.
Language of Material:
English
.
Collection is open for research.
Property rights and copyright reside with the University of California. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please
contact the University Archivist.
Katsuo Kuno Gift of Kazuo Shibata Paintings Scrapbook and Catalog. AS-038. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine
Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Transferred, 1987 and 1999.
Processed by Carrie Lee in 2002.
Katsuo Kuno, a prominent farmer in the Nukata District of the Aichi Prefecture near Nagoya, Japan, donated the 35 Shibata
paintings to the University of California, Irvine in 1982. There are two stories explaining his donation. One is that Kuno
was a patient at the UCI Medical Center and made the gift in appreciation of the treatment he received there. The other is
that the gift was in response to a post- WWII program headed by UCI Chancellor Dan Aldrich that brought Japanese farmers to
the United States to learn American farming methods.
Kazuo Shibata was born in Nagoya in 1915 or 1916. The artist began his series of paintings of Japanese national parks in 1966
and finished in 1981.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection comprises correspondence, clippings, business cards, photographs, and publications covering Katsuo Kuno's
gift of 35 Kazuo Shibata paintings of Japanese national park scenes to the University of California, Irvine. These materials
were originally collected in a scrapbook by Clayton Garrison of the School of Fine Arts, who handled the transfer of the gift
in 1982. This collection also contains a bound catalog of Shibata's paintings which is annotated with each painting's location
on the UCI campus.
Collection materials have been removed from the original scrapbook for preservation purposes and are in the original order
of the scrapbook. Materials are in English unless otherwise specified at the item level.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Landscape painting, Japanese -- 20th century
Clippings -- 20th century.
Letters -- 20th century.
Photographic prints -- 20th century.
National parks and reserves -- Japan -- Pictorial works
University of California, Irvine -- Art collections -- Archives