Samizu's Life & Art Chronology

1936 Born 1936-03-16, Uryu, Hokkaidō, Japan)  Samizu baby picture, Feb 7, 1937
Mother: Masue Matuki School teacher and avante gard "Modern Girl"
Father: Satoru Matsuki School teacher and war resistor (I have a better picture of each)

1958 Graduates from National Women's College of Fine Arts, Tokyo. (nowcrenamed Joshibi University of Art and Design  
Samizu's graduate work painting "Daphne" Oil, 4 feet by 5 feet approx

1958 and 1959 Teaches at Narimasugaoka Elementary School  Pic of her teaching license

1959-1960 Teaches at Shimura Daisan Junior High School in Tokyo. Joins Tokyo Teachers Union  Photo of her & 2 other teachers   photo of samizu w/bicycle PHoto with former husband Herman Berry cut from picture Her Jr High teaching license samizu playing violin
1960  Samizu gave lecture in  Bunkyo Precinct in Tokyo, calling for adoption of philosopher Herbert Reade's educational principles by the Japanese educational system.

1961 Samizu married American airman Herman Berry at the American Embassy in Tokyo

1962-1969 lived at various air force bases around Europe and United States. Commissioned by49th Tactical Squadron to paint portrait of air force fighter ace  Major Rchard Bong. Paints several other portaits and still life paintings for living air force pilots

1969 Samizu divorces Herman Berry at base in Calumet Air Force Station in northern Michigan. Moves to Oregon with Andrew Delaney
1969 Samizu wins logo design contest for 1969 Oregon Loggers Festival, Albany Oregon. Creates many minor works, including her almost imperceptibly surrealistic stilllife of violin.

1970 Samizu and Delaney move to New York City, Delaney's mother becomes Samizu's patron, giving her living and working space to paint.
1971 Samizu paints "Triumphal Return", "Still Life"  and "Self portrait"  A large version of Triumphal Return
1972 Samizu paints "Barbara and the Fortune teller",  "-opia!"     Samizu returns to Japan
1973 Samizu returns to New York City. She is approached by the Salmagundi Club and joins them
1973 Samizu moves in with Mrs ____ Riker of Long Island.  Riker become Samizu's  patron
1973 Samizu paints "A Celebrator" and the "Annunciation"
1974 Samizu paints "Ah!" A picture of a cracked-open cooked lobster, symbolizing one of the shattered tanks littering the deserts of the Yom Kippur War in the Middle east.
         Ah! wins  long island art show
1975 Samizu paints "The Blue Ghost" oil painting

1976-1979 Samizu returns to Oregon. Severe leg pain strikes, making it hard to stand still and paint. 1976 photo
        She pursues a post bachelor degree at Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon, and works at the university as a janitor. See 1978 article photo article
         Visits California, paints a mural in a health spa.
1980 Samizu tours western Canada. Paints several portraits and a drawing series illustrating the book AuI: the Language of Space.
1985 Samizu draws the cover picture for the Autumn 1985 Earth First! Journal. Drawing depicts  tree sitte/r protester Ron Huber of Maryland  80 feet up a tree  being confronted by two sheriff's deputies in a crane box. (I have original if needed.)
1987 Samizu marries Ron Huber. picture on courthouse steps

1988-1992 Samizu moves to Cheverly Maryland with Ron Huber. They move to a rehabilitated former slave house on the Maidstone Manor estate in Calvert County. Samizu paints a series of drawings of Japanese dancers and  a number of bay scape oil paintings for several collectors. Samizu contracts sever case of Lyme disease that causes her to paint ever darker paintings, to the despair of the collectors.

1992 Samizu visits Japan for six months. picture dining with her friends  Photo of Samizu in Maryland 1992  photo with parents

1993 Samizu moves to Maine, joining husband Ron Huber

2006 Samizu divorces Ron Huber. They remain friends

2006 to 2011 Samizu receives lengthy treatment for continuing Lyme disease

2011 Samizu learns she will be honored at Salmagundi Club for being pioneer woman artist.

 2018  August Samizu Matsuki dies of cancer August 4, 2018

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