George T. Tamura, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGeorge T. Tamura
American artist
Date of Birth: 27-Nov-1927
Date of Death: 11-Feb-2010
Profession: artist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About George T. Tamura
- George T.
- Tamura (November 27, 1927 – February 11, 2010 ) was a Japanese American artist.
- Tamura was born in Sacramento, California.
- In 1942, soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941), Tamura and his family were incarcerated in the Japanese American incarceration camp, Tule Lake War Relocation Center in Northern California.
- Tamura was fifteen.
- While imprisoned in the camp, Tamura painted watercolor landscapes featuring the internment camp as his subject matter.
- Tamura painted these images on the back of shredded internment notices. At the end of World War II, in 1945, the Tamura family was released.
- Tamura attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and showed in numerous one-man shows in that area.
- He has been employed as an art director for southern and northern California companies.
- Tamura continued to practice his art throughout his life.
- Later in life, he also worked as a public relations and advertisement executive. In 1995, Tamura wrote an autobiography entitled Reflections, which recounted his experiences being incarcerated during World War II.
- In 2004, Mr.
- Tamura was featured on the PBS television program History Detectives.
- A young Taiwanese and Japanese American man, Kenji Liu, was working in the archives of the National Japanese American Historical Society, unknowingly found a box that contained Mr.
- Tamura's paintings.
- With the History Detectives' help, he discovered that the paintings were indeed those of George T.
- Tamura.In 1990, the United States government provided redress to Tamura for his forced incarceration, as well as a letter of apology from the president.
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