Harry Tsuchidana

Harry Suyemi Tsuchidana (born 1932) is an American abstract painter. He was born in Waipahu, Hawaii to parents who owned a two-acre farm.^[1] Tsuchidana enlisted in the United States Marine Corps upon graduation from high school in 1952. When discharged from the Marines in 1955, he enrolled in the Corcoran School of Art (Washington, D. C.). He then moved to New York City, where he studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, and at the Pratt Contemporary Graphic Arts Center in New York City. While enrolled in classes, he worked as a guard and custodian at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and as a night watchman at the Museum of Modern Art.^[2] In 1959, he received a John Hay Whitney Fellowship.^[3]

Although best known as an

• Hartwell, Patricia L. (editor), Retrospective 1967-1987,
  Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
  , Honolulu, Hawaii, 1987, p. 34
• International Art Society of Hawai'i, Kuilima Kākou, Hawai’i-Japan Joint Exhibition, Honolulu, International Art Society of Hawai'i, 2004, p. 51
• Morse, Marcia, James Jensen & Allison Wong, Harry Tsuchidana:A Retrospective, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2016
• Morse, Marcia, Legacy: Facets of Island Modernism, Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2001,
  ISBN 978-0-937426-48-7
  , pp. 89–93