Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: FBI

Did you know he made it before the “Mona Lisa?� And that he finger painted? Uncover more unexpected details about the only painting by the artist in the Americas.
Modestini and the painting were met by FBI agents when they landed in New York.

Asian Americans are often left out of view of US history. But their lives—and their art—are an essential part of the nation’s story.
She was 16 years old in 1942, when FBI agents seized her father Umakichi Asawa.

Studying artists and their works invites explorations of identity and the human condition. What drives artists to create? What choices do artists make, and why? Sometimes artists directly engage with questions of identity in their artwork: Who am I? How do I relate to others, and how do they relate to me?
Umakichi was arrested by the FBI in 1942, when Asawa was in high school.