This Guide to Papers of Asian American Artists highlights hundreds of unique collections in the Archives of American Art which demonstrate the involvement and influence of Asian Americans in the visual arts.
Notable artists represented here include jewelry designer Miye Matsukata, painter and muralist Eitaro Ishigaki, painter and illustrator Dong Kingman, sculptor Isamu Noguchi, video artist and printmaker Norie Sato, ceramists Toshiko Takaezu and Patti Warashina, and painter and printmaker Seong Moy. The Archives also has especially strong documentation relating to the 20th century painter, printmaker and photographer Yasuo Kuniyoshi.
This guide was begun in May 1999 in recognition of the Smithsonian Institution's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month; it was revised and expanded in 2008 with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.