Chuzo Tamotzu papers
name: label: Creator
content: Tamotsu, Chūzō, 1888-1975
label: Names
content: Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973
label: Names
content: Ribak, Louis, 1902-1979
label: Names
content: Rush, Olive, 1873-1966
label: Names
content: Shonnard, Eugenie Frederica, 1886-1978
label: Names
content: Sloan, John, 1871-1951
label: Names
content: Tamotzu, Louise Kates
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe
label: Topic
content: Painting, American
label: Topic
content: Asian American art
label: Topic
content: Asian American artists
label: Topic
content: Japanese American art
label: Topic
content: Japanese American artists
label: Topic
content: Asian American painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Reels 3031-3041: Microfilmed as part of the Archives of American Art's Texas project.
label: Provenance
content: Material on reel SW 6 lent for microfilming 1970 by Chuzo Tamotzu and material on reels 3031-3041 lent for microfilming 1983 by Louise Kates Tamotzu, widow of Tamotzu. All material subequently donated to the University of New Mexico, Center for Southwest research.
creator: label: Creator
content: Tamotsu, Chūzō, 1888-1975
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Chuzo Tamotzu (1888-1975) was a Japanese American painter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tamotzu was born in Japan and came to the United States in 1920. He moved to Santa Fe in 1948.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 12 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1920-1982
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.tamochuz
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel SW 6 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3031-3041 available for use through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals located at the University of New Mexico, Center for Southwest Research, Albuquerque, N.M.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Microfilm reels 3031-3041: Microfilm inventory available in Archives of American Art offices.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence; biographical data; list of works of art; photographs; sketchbook; annotated books; financial material; a diary; sketches; prints; and printed material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL SW 6: Correspondence, including 2 letters from Philip Evergood; biographical data; photographs; list of paintings sold; sketches; prints; catalogs; and clippings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 3031-3041: Biographical information; a list of works of art; correspondence, 1930-1975; photographs of Tamotzu, his family, friends and works of art; a sketchbook, 1945-1946; annotated books; files on his trips to Japan and his work about Hiroshima, New Mexico and its artists' community, galleries, museums, art associations, collectors and artists Philip Evergood, Louis Ribak, Olive Rush, Eugenie Shonnard, John Sloan and others; financial material; exhibition announcements and catalogs; clippings; printed material; and a diary kept by Tamotzu's wife Louise Kates Tamotzu.