JAPANESE ARTISTS IN NEW YORK BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS:
A NEW CHAPTER IN AMERICAN ART
Both Ishigaki and Noda were members of the communist John Reed Club.
However, as Japan’s militarism became threatening to the U.S...Noda was actually “censured” because he was a second-generation Japanese American who had been educated in Japan in his youth...Leaving his house in Woodstock, New York, he died in Tokyo in 1939 at the age of thirty...Ishigaki was also punished for his Japanese connections. He was dismissed from the WPA/FAP in 1937 upon completion of his mural at the courthouse in Harlem...
After his American life of forty years, he was arrested by the FBI in 1951 because of his Communist works and activities, and was deported with his wife Ayako Ishigaki.
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Eitaro Ishigaki :Young herder and ox depart at dawn 1939-
Ayako Ishigaki : Ishigaki's wife
There is little documentation about Ishagaki herself, likely because of her illegal status while she lived in the United States, which is surprising, considering the fact that several of her friends were very well known, such as writers Pearl S. Buck, Helen Kuo, and Agnes Smedley and artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi.
