was a Japanese artist and art teacher.

Life

Tanaka immigrated to Seattle in 1904 and later graduated from Broadway High School

Broadway High School

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. He first exhibited at the Washington Museum in 1912.
He also presented works at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

He married Lousie Gebhard Cann in 1917 and they moved to Paris in 1920. He exhibited at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Salon d'Automne

Salon d'Automne

In 1903, the first Salon d'Automne was organized by Georges Rouault, André Derain, Henri Matisse, Angele Delasalle and Albert Marquet as a reaction to the conservative policies of the official Paris Salon...

, and Salon des Tuileries

Salon des Tuileries

The Salon des Tuileries was an annual art exhibition for painting and sculpture, created June 14, 1923, co-founded by painter Albert Besnard, sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, architect Auguste Perret, and others....

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He lived at rue Notre-Dame-Des-Champs in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 from 1923 to 1941.

His papers are held at the Archives of American Art

Archives of American Art

The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 16 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washington, D.C...

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