Noda Hideo
1935
Watercolor
From Mr. I’s Collection
Noda Hideo
1908-1939
Born in California, United States to Japanese parents who emigrated from Kumamoto Prefecture, where he spent his childhood. He returned to the United States and received an award from the Woodstock Artists Association in 1932. In 1934, he worked as an assistant-artist to Diego Rivera on his murals, before creating his own mural titled Immigrants before returning back to Japan. In 1935, he exhibited at the prestigious Nika Exhibition, and again returned to the United States the following year. In 1937 he came back to Japan and became a member of the Shinseisaku Art Society. In less than ten years of his painting career, he acquired the techniques of mural development and montage (composing multiple scenes onto one screen) which had a great influence on the Japanese art world.