Za Zen (The Meditation)
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color lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 76.2 x 56 cm (30 x 22 1/16 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of June Wayne, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1991.205.78.5
About the Artist
Matsumi Kanemitsu
Matsumi Kanemitsu (1922–1992), known to friends and colleagues as Mike, was born in Ogden, Utah, to Japanese immigrant parents and spent his early childhood in Hiroshima, Japan, with his grandparents. He returned to the United States in 1940 and enlisted in the U.S. Army the following year. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was arrested and confined in internment camps, an experience that marke...