Julie Otsuka
Object Details
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Exhibition
- 20th Century Americans: 2000 to Present
- On View
- NPG, South Gallery 341
- Date
- 1986
- Object number
- C/NPG.2012.22
- Exhibition Label
- Born Palo Alto, California
- Prize-winning writer Julie Otsuka posed for Philip Grausman when she was an undergraduate at Yale University and Grausman was on the faculty. Memories of growing up in California and hearing stories of her grandfather’s arrest after Pearl Harbor and the subsequent internment of her grandmother, uncle, and mother led Otsuka to write novels charting the experience of Japanese Americans. She has commented on the link between the “visual” characters that populate her novels and her training as an artist. Grausman’s graceful lines and delicate modeling capture a contemplative view of Otsuka, who describes her writing as “deeply internal.”
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the artist
- Artist
- Philip Grausman, born 16 Jul 1935
- Sitter
- Julie Otsuka, born 15 May 1962
- Topic
- Julie Otsuka: Female
- Julie Otsuka: Literature\Writer
- Portrait
- Place
- United States\Connecticut\New Haven
- Medium
- Pewter
- Dimensions
- Without Base: 32.4 x 16.2 x 23.8cm (12 3/4 x 6 3/8 x 9 3/8")
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Philip Grausman
- Type
- Sculpture
- Metadata Usage
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- npg_C_NPG.2012.22
Julie Otsuka
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