Resources
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modern Art Pavilion, Tribute to Zoe Dusanne, Mar. 24 - May 8, 1977.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Northwest Traditions, 1978.
Osaka, Japan, National Museum of Art, Pacific Northwest Artists and Japan, Oct. 2 - Nov. 28, 1982 (Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Jan. 28 - Feb. 28, 1983).
Bellevue, Washington, Bellevue Art Museum, School of Art, University of Washington: 1920-1960, July 16 - Sept. 25, 1983.
Port Angeles, Washington, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, George Tsutakawa, Nov. 22 - Dec. 29, 1986.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Views and Visions in the Pacific Northwest, June 7 - Sept. 2, 1990.
Bellevue, Washington, Bellevue Art Museum, Eternal Laughter: A Sixty-Year Retrospective Of the Work Of George Tsutakawa, Sept. 15 - Nov. 2, 1990.
Seattle, Washington, Foster/White Gallery, George Tsutakawa, Jan. 6 - 30, 1994.
Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum, Jet Dreams: The Northwest In The Fifties, Mar. 17 - June 4, 1995.
La Conner, Washington, Museum of Northwest Art, Northwest Art: Shaped by Hand, Shaped by the Spirit, Sept. 28 - Dec. 31, 1995.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Collection Highlights: 1945 To The Present, Sept. 12, 1996 - June 1, 1997.
New Brunswick, New Jersey, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, Mar. 23 - July 31, 1997.
Seattle, Washington, Henry Art Gallery, What It Meant to Be Modern: Seattle Art at Mid-Century, Oct. 15, 1999 - Jan. 23, 2000.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Mark Tobey: Smashing Forms and Mark Tobey and Friends, Nov. 16, 2002 - Apr. 6, 2003.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, International Abstraction: Making Painting Real, May 2, 2003 - Feb. 29, 2004.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Exceptionally Ordinary: Mingei 1920–2020, Dec. 14, 2019 - Sept. 6, 2021.
Bainbridge Island, Washington, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, George Tsutakawa: Language of Nature, July 1 - Oct. 9, 2022.
Published ReferencesJohns, Barbara. Modern Art from the Pacific Northwest in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum, 1990; cat. no. 13, p. 17.
Selected Works. Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum, 1991, p. 122.
Delson, Susan. "The Intimite Beauty of Honest Craft." Wall Street Journal, November 30 - December 1, 2019: p. C14, reproduced. [A version of this article appears online on November 27, 2019: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-intimate-beauty-of-honest-craft-11574870032.]
Johns, Barbara. Kenjiro Nomura American Modernist: An Issei Artist's Journey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021; p. 112, reproduced fig. 4.27.