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'[[File:'From Cliffs to Evening' by Reuben Tam, oil on canvas, 1978, Honolulu Museum of Art, 6230.1.JPG|thumb|right|250px|''From Cliffs to Evening'' by Reuben Tam, oil on canvas, 1978, [[Honolulu Museum of Art]]]] '''Reuben Tam''' (1916–1991) was an American landscape painter, educator, poet and graphic artist. He was born in [[Kapa'a, Hawai'i|Kapa'a]] on the Hawaiian island of [[Kaua'i]] on Jan. 17, 1916. He earned a BA degree from the [[University of Hawaii]] in 1937, and also studied at the [[San Francisco Art Institute|California School of Fine Art]], at [[Columbia University]] with [[Meyer Schapiro]] and at the [[New School of Social Research]] in New York City. From 1946 to the 1970s, he taught at the [[Brooklyn Museum|Brooklyn Museum Art School]] where his students included [[Frances Kornbluth]] and Jean Arcoleo. He also spent many summers painting on [[Monhegan, Maine|Monhegan Island]] in Maine. Upon retirement in the 1970s, Tam returned to Kaua'i and died there on January 3, 1991 of [[lymphoma]].<ref>Forbes, David W. (1992). ''Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People'', 1778-1941. Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts,pp. 265–6. {{ISBN|9780824814465}}</ref><ref>http://www.askart.com/askart/artist.aspx?artist=9048 Reuben Tam in AskArt.com</ref><ref>Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, ''Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West'', Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, {{ISBN|9780937426920}}, p. 30</ref> Tam is best known for his semi-abstract landscapes showing both land and sea, such as ''From Cliffs to Evening''. The [[Addison Gallery of American Art]] (Andover, Massachusetts), the [[Brooklyn Museum of Art]] (Brooklyn, New York ), the [[Butler Institute of American Art]] (Youngstown, Ohio), the [[Corcoran Gallery]] (Washington D. C.), [[Des Moines Art Center]] (Des Moines, Iowa), [[Farnsworth Art Museum]] (Rockland, Maine), Fisher Gallery (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), the [[Hawaii State Art Museum]], the [[Henry Art Gallery]] (University of Washington, Seattle, Washington), the [[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]] (Washington, D. C.), the [[Honolulu Museum of Art]], the [[Lowe Art Museum]] (University of Miami, Florida), the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], the [[Museum of Modern Art]] (New York City), the [[Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum]] (Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri), the [[Newark Museum]] (Newark, New Jersey), [[Reading Public Museum]] (Reading, Pennsylvania), the [[San Diego Museum of Art]] (San Diego, California), [[Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery]] (Lincoln, Nebraska), the [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]] (Washington, D. C.), the [[University of Michigan Museum of Art]] (Ann Arbor, Michigan) and the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]] (New York City) are among the public collections holding works by Reuben Tam.<ref>http://www.askart.com/askart/artist.aspx?artist=9048 Reuben Tam in AskArt.com</ref><ref>Chang, Gordon H., Mark Dean Johnson, Paul J. Karlstrom & Sharon Spain, Asian American Art, a History, 1850-1970, Stanford University Press, {{ISBN|9780804757515}}, p. 429</ref> ==References== * Chang, Gordon H., Mark Dean Johnson, Paul J. Karlstrom & Sharon Spain, Asian American Art, a History, 1850-1970, Stanford University Press, {{ISBN|9780804757515}}, pp.&nbsp;429–430 *{{cite book |author=Department of Education, State of Hawaii |authorlink=Hawai'i Department of Education |title=Artists of Hawaii |location=Honolulu |publisher=Department of Education, State of Hawaii |year=1985 |pages=47–54 |oclc=13099980}} *{{cite book |last=Forbes |first=David W. |title=Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941 |location=Honolulu |publisher=[[Honolulu Museum of Art|Honolulu Academy of Arts]] : [[University of Hawaii Press]] |year=1992 |pages=215–266 |oclc=185823750 |isbn= 9780824814465}} *{{cite book |last1=Haar |first1=Francis |authorlink=Francis Haar |first2=Murray |last2=Turnbull |title=Artists of Hawaii |volume=2 |publisher=[[University of Hawaii Press]] |location=Honolulu, HI |year=1977 |pages=85–90 |id={{OCLC|312830975|18053919}} |isbn=9780824804671}} *{{cite book |last=Tam |first=Reuben |title=Archipelago, Life Cycle of the Hawaiian Islands, A Portfolio of Paintings |location=Honolulu, HI |publisher=[[Honolulu Museum of Art|Honolulu Academy of Arts]] |year=1998 |oclc=43783972 |isbn=9780937426401}} *{{cite journal |last=Tam |first=Reuben |title=Sketches |journal=[[Bamboo Ridge|Bamboo Ridge: Journal of Hawai'i Literature and Arts]] |issue=Winter |year=1993 |pages=32–138 |issn=0733-0308 |id={{OCLC|61311690|833909657}}}} *{{cite book |last=Tam |first=Reuben |title=The Wind-honed Islands Rise, Selected Poems of Reuben Tam |location=Honolulu, HI |publisher=Manoa Books |year=1996 |oclc=35714632 |isbn=9780824819323}} *{{cite book |last=Yoshihara |first=Lisa A. |title=Collective Visions, 1967-1997 |location=Honolulu, HI |publisher=[[Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts]] |year=1997 |page=73 |oclc=37890571 |asin=B001THP47M}} ==Footnotes== {{reflist}} {{Hawaiian Art}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tam, Reuben}} [[Category:1916 births]] [[Category:1991 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century American painters]] [[Category:American male painters]] [[Category:Artists from Hawaii]] [[Category:People from Kauai County, Hawaii]] [[Category:Guggenheim Fellows]] [[Category:Printmakers from Hawaii]] [[Category:20th-century American printmakers]]'