Hideo Noda

Hideo Noda
野田英夫
Born
Noda Hideo (Japanese order)

July 15, 1908
DiedJanuary 12, 1939(1939-01-12) (aged 30)
NationalityJapanese, American
Alma materCalifornia School of Fine Arts (San Francisco Art Institute), Art Students League
Known forModernist paintings, modernist murals

Hideo Noda (野田 英夫, Noda Hideo, July 15, 1908 – January 12, 1939), also known as Hideo Benjamin Noda[1] and Benjamin Hideo Noda,[2] was a Japanese-American modernist painter and muralist, member of the Shinseisakuha [ja] movement in Japan, student of Arnold Blanch, and uncle of Japanese printmaker Tetsuya Noda, as well as alleged communist spy recruited by Whittaker Chambers.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ "Guide to the California Asian American Artists Biographical Survey Records". Online Archive of California.
  2. ^ "Noda, Benjamin Hideo, 1908–1939". Smithsonian Institution.
  3. ^ "Hideo Noda Dies: Assisted Rivera" (PDF). New York Post. January 14, 1939.
  4. ^ "Hideo Noda, Painter, Dies in Tokyo at 30". The New York Times. January 14, 1939.
  5. ^ "Died: Hideo Noda". The New York Sun. January 14, 1939. p. 17.