Paul Horiuchi was an acclaimed artist born in Japan

Japan

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 who immigrated to the Pacific North West.
Horiuchi's worked in both painting

Painting

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 and collage

Collage

A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....

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Honors received

• • 1968 awarded honorary Doctor of Humanities degree by the University of Puget Sound
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  • 1976 deemed a "Sacred Treasure" (4th Class) by the Emperor of Japan
    Emperor of Japan
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      in 1976.
  • 1979 awarded honorary doctorate by St. Martin's College.
  • 1989 awarded Washington state Governor's Award of Special Commendation.

Exhibitions

• • 1967 show at the Tacoma Art Museum
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  • 1969 show at The University of Oregon
    University of Oregon
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     Museum of Art, Eugene.
  • 1987 shows at the Wing Luke Asian Museum
    Wing Luke Asian Museum
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    , Seattle.
  • 1995 Received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Wing Luke Asian Museum.

Source links:

• • Paul Horiuchi "East and West" University Of Washington Press

http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/JOHPAU.html

• • "Pealing Back Layers" Seattle Times

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/wingluke/2004446231_visart30.html

• • "Paul Horiuchi, A Hard Won Harmony" ArtsJounral Web Blog

http://www.artsjournal.com/anotherbb/2010/03/paul-horiuchi---a-modest-yet-e.html

• • Biography from HistoryLink.org

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=3829

Sources

Horiuchi had earned many awards, including status as a Sacred Treasure of Fourth Class in Japan.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19990902&slug=2980731
Iridescent Light -- Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.
Seattle Times, Art review: Horiuchi's collages, some rarely seen, demonstrate his mastery
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thearts/2011559170_horiuchi09.html
Paul Horiuchi: Accident Turned Laborer into Master Artist -- Seattle Times, March 23, 1980
Collage Master Is Better Than Ever-- Seattle Times, May 5, 1963
Paul Horiuchi's Show at Museum Pleases -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 27, 1958
Horiuchi Has It: A Stroke of Fortune -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 14, 1965