Sakari Suzuki
{{short description|American painter}}
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| death_date = January 1995
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Sakari Suzuki (10 October 1899 – January 1995) was an American artist born in Japan.
Biography
Suzuki was born in Iwate, Japan. He moved to San Francisco in 1918 to join his father. Sukuzi attended California School of Fine Arts{{cite book|last1=Falk|first1=Peter|title=Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975 : 400 Years of Artists in America|date=1999|publisher=Sound View Press|location=Madison, CT|isbn=0932087574|page=[https://archive.org/details/whowaswhoinameri0003unse/page/3225 3225]|url=https://archive.org/details/whowaswhoinameri0003unse/page/3225}} there in 1924. From 1932 until 1936 he exhibited in New York.[http://www.askart.com/askart/s/sakari_suzuki/sakari_suzuki.aspx Sakari Suzuki], Ask Art, accessed December 2011 In 1936 he worked for the Federal Art Project creating murals at the Willard Parker Hospital, which is now demolished.
Suzuki moved to Chicago, Illinois in about 1951{{cite book|last=Chang|first=Gordon H|title=Asian American Art (1850-1970) p.422|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2Dzco1DhfsC&q=%22Sakari+Suzuki%22+born|isbn=978-0-8047-5752-2|date=2008-08-11}} and died in January 1995.
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Category:People from Iwate Prefecture
Category:Japanese emigrants to the United States
Category:American artists of Japanese descent
Category:Federal Art Project artists
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American male painters
Category:20th-century American male artists
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