Ogura Yonesuke Itoh

Kilauea, oil on canvas painting by Ogura Yonesuke Itoh, 1908, Honolulu Museum of Art

Ogura Yonesuke Itoh (1870–1940) was a Japanese-American artist. He was born in Japan in 1870. At 25 years of age, he jumped ship in Hawaii and hid from the authorities in Punchbowl Crater. He became a member of Hawaii’s volcano school of landscape painters. Ogura is considered to be the first ethnically Japanese painter of any stature to paint Hawaiian subjects. His paintings closely resemble those of Jules Tavernier. Itoh left many of his paintings unsigned, possibly because he was in Hawaii illegally, and some of these unsigned paintings have been incorrectly attributed to Tavernier. Ogura died in 1940.

The Honolulu Museum of Art usually has at least one painting by Ogura Yonesuke Itoh on display with other examples of the volcano school.

References

Severson, Don R., Finding Paradise, Island Art in Private Collections, University of Hawaii Press, 2002, 98-99.

Art of Hawai‘i

Museums	Bailey House Museum Bishop Museum Hawaii State Art Museum Honolulu Museum of Art Isaacs Art Center Spalding House

Key Artists	D. Howard Hitchcock Herb Kawainui Kāne Jules Tavernier Madge Tennent Lionel Walden John Webber

Contact & Kingdom	Jacques Arago Richard Brydges Beechey Louis Choris Robert Dampier Titian Peale John Mix Stanley Mikhail Tikhanov John Webber

Volcano School	Ernst William Christmas Charles Furneaux Ogura Yonesuke Itoh Eduardo Lefebvre Scovell Jules Tavernier

Turn of the Century	William A. Coulter Helen Thomas Dranga D. Howard Hitchcock John La Farge Grace Carpenter Hudson William Twigg-Smith Hubert Vos Lionel Walden Henry Otto Wix Theodore Wores

Hawaiian Modernism	Charles W. Bartlett Marguerite Blasingame Jean Charlot Isami Doi Robert Lee Eskridge Cornelia MacIntyre Foley Hon Chew Hee John Kelly Huc-Mazelet Luquiens Genevieve Lynch Arman Manookian Alexander MacLeod Ben Norris Shirley Russell Lloyd Sexton Joseph Henry Sharp Reuben Tam Madge Tennent John Young

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