Masami Teraoka, Makapuu Beach III, Hawai’i – Original Painting

Notes: Titled, signed and dated in pencil by the artist on the reverse. One of only several original exhibition pieces that do not depict a human figure within the design. Work was exhibited and also acquired directly from the Space Gallery. Removed from the original black gallery frame. PROVENANCE: Space Gallery, Santa Monica, California. Created: 1984. Teraoka has been the subject of more than 70 solo exhibitions, many of which have traveled extensively, including those organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1980; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu in 1988; and the Yale University Art Gallery in 1998. In 1996 he was featured in a solo exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and in 1997 at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. His work is in more than 50 public collections worldwide, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; the Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D. C.; Tate Modern. He has also completed numerous commissioned pieces, including a painting, Samurai Businessmen for the cover of TIME Magazine, and Green Rabbit Island for the State Foundation for the Arts and Culture, Honolulu, Hawaii.