Miyuki Tanobe | |
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Born | 1937 (age 86–87) |
Nationality | Japanese, Canadian |
Alma mater | Guédaï University, école des beaux-arts de Tokyo, Japon; Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France; École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris |
Known for | painter, nihonga |
Notable work | The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy in 1983 |
Elected | Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1994; Officer of the National Order of Quebec, 1995; member of the Order of Canada, 2002, medal-holder of the Ordre du Jubilée, 2002 |
Patron(s) | Taru Tanabe, Seison Maeda, Roger Chapelain-Midy |
Miyuki Tanobe CM OQ RCA (born 1937 in Morioka, Japan) is a Japanese-born Canadian painter, based in Montreal, Quebec. She is known for her paintings of the everyday life of Montreal residents.[1] Her work is in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée du Québec, Lavalin, Pratt & Whitney, and Shell Canada, and Selection du Reader’s Digest. She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.