Hideo Date

Hideo Date
Born(1907-01-05)January 5, 1907
Osaka, Japan
DiedJanuary 6, 2005(2005-01-06) (aged 98)
Queens, New York
EducationKawabata Gakko, Tokyo
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles
Known forPainting
MovementSynchromism
SpouseYuriko Tamaki

Hideo Date (January 5, 1907 – January 6, 2005) was a Japanese-born American painter active from the 1930s to the 1980s, known for combining elements of Japanese nihonga with American Synchromism. A prominent figure in the Los Angeles art scene prior to World War II, his career was interrupted by the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans. Although he continued painting for decades after the war, Date's work remained largely ignored until he was rediscovered by a younger generation of artists and curators in the 1990s.