Indigenous Arts of North America

The Life and Art of Tokio Ueyama

Born in Japan, Tokio Ueyama moved to the United States in 1908 at age 18, where he made a home until his death in 1954. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Tokio and his wife Suye were among more than 120,000 Japanese Americans forcibly relocated into American concentration camps. More than 10,000 people were incarcerated at Amache in the following years, making it the tenth largest "city" in Colorado at the time. There, Ueyama taught adult art classes to 150 students. This exhibition tells a story of a time in Colorado’s history, of a place where Americans experienced dislocation and loss, and, more importantly, displayed unimaginable resilience, tenacity, and creativity in the face of prejudice.

Shop Exhibition Prints
Hiroshi Yoshida, El Capitan, 1925
Asian Art
Camille Pissarro, Autumn, Poplars, Éragny (Automne, peupliers, Éragny), 1894
Impressionism

Collection Highlights

Gustave Doré, The Family of Street Acrobats: the Injured Child (La famille du saltimbanque: l'enfant blessé), 1873
Doré
The Family of Street Acrobats
Vincent van Gogh, Edge of Wheat Field with Poppies, 1887
van Gogh
Edge of Wheat Field with Poppies
William Adolphe Bouguereau, Childhood Idyll (Idylle enfantine), 1900
Bouguereau
Childhood Idyll
Birger Sandzén, A Mountain Symphony (Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado), 1927
Sandzén
A Mountain Symphony
Maynard Dixon, Wide Lands of the Navajo, 1945
Dixon
Wide Lands of the Navajo
Thomas Lawrence, Portrait of a Lady, about 1793
Lawrence
Portrait of a Lady
Sebastián López de Arteaga, Apparition of Saint Michael on Mount Gargano, Mexico, about 1650
López de Arteaga
Apparition of Saint Michael on Mount Gargano, Mexico
Claude Monet, Waterlilies or The Water Lily Pond (Nymphéas), 1904
Monet
Waterlilies or The Water Lily Pond (Nymphéas)