Catalyzed by imprisonment
Munio Makuuchi. “Neo Camp ala Ron Brown” ( etching, drypoint, scraping and burnishing on warm white Arches paper), by the late Munio Makuuchi, in the show “Defiant Vision: Prints & Poetry,’’ at the Smith College Museum of Art , in Northampton, Mass., through Dec. 8 This work was purchased with the Elizabeth Halsey Dock {Smith College} Class of 1933 Fund. © The Estate of Munio Makuuchi.
The museum says that Munio Makuuchi, “born Howard Takahashi, was a Japanese-American artist and poet born in 1934. {He died in 2000.} He and his family were imprisoned in Minidoka Relocation Center, an internment camp, for three years during World War II, and this experience was a catalyst for his artistic vision