BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Kazumi (Jack) Kawaguchi

November 1 1915 - November 24 2010

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Kazumi Kawaguchi was born in Steveston. He went to Kitsilano High School in Vancouver, where his art teacher was Jack Shadbolt. After graduation Kawaguchi worked as a greengrocer.

He exhibited artwork in the 1941 and 1961 B.C. Artists exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The artist was living in Vancouver in 1941, but in 1942 he was interned at Hastings Park and sent to Three Valley Road Camp, near Revelstoke. Shadbolt remained his friend, corresponding with him at the internment camp, and recommended that Kawaguchi paint as many details of life in the camps as he possibly could.


Vesuvius Bay, 1976 brushpen drawing

BC Vital Statistics on-line notes the marriage of Kazumi Kawaguchi to Nobuko Wakita in Revelstoke on April 14 1943. He worked at various jobs after getting out of the internment camp, and moved back to Vancouver in 1950. In 1977 Kawaguchi was still living in Vancouver, noted as a "painter - watercolour."

Kawaguchi moved back to Richmond, but died in 2010 in an Abbotsford care home.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1941 Sept. 26 - Oct. 19 VAG   B.C. Artists 10th Annual The Back Lane
1961 Oct. 11 - 29 VAG   B.C. Artists 30th Annual Kitsilano Beach

References

VISUAL ARTS BRITISH COLUMBIA (refer to VABC77)

B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE marriage (refer to BCVS)

Online memorial article:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/kazumi-kawaguchi-obituary?id=44929346

Clippings

"An apt pupil works in his mentor's image" by Jonathan Woodward
       Globe and Mail, July 12 2005

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