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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: pointillist rendering of a chair against a wall with fleur de lis wallpaper and a single window

ROBERT KOBAYASHI

Fleur-de-lis #1, 1979
Oil on canvas
21 x 21 x 3 1/2 in.
Copyright The Estate of Robert Kobayashi
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Robert Kobayashi served in the United States Army from 1944 to 1946 during WWII, winning four medal citations as a member of the 778th Tank Battalion. Despite this service, Kobayashi’s...
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Robert Kobayashi served in the United States Army from 1944 to 1946 during WWII, winning four medal citations as a member of the 778th Tank Battalion. Despite this service, Kobayashi’s status as a Japanese American prevented him from travelling home to his native Hawaii on leave. Instead of risking internment by his own country, Kobayashi chose to make a short but fateful journey North, where he fell into the Art Institute of Chicago and A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884. This chance encounter with pointillism would plant the seed for the artist’s future practice.
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