Kenjiro Nomura, American ModernistThe first in depth exploration of a prominent Seattle based Issei artist Born in Japan, acclaimed Seattle artist Kenjiro Nomura (18961956) came to the United States as a child of ten, received artistic recognition by age twenty, and in the 1930s became the best known artist of Japanese descent in the Northwest, his artwork widely exhibited regionally and nationally. Along with more than one hundred thousand Japanese Americans from the West Coast,