2020: Samizu's widower asks air force art museum about her Major Bong portrait
Seeking info about portraits of USAF pilots painted by my late wife in the 1960s SAMIZU Ron Huber < coastwatch@gmail.com > Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 10:46 AM to usaf.pentagon.saf-aa.mbx.saf-aao-workflow Dear friends at the Air Force Art Museum At Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany between 1962 &1968 my late wife Samizu Matsuki painted at least 5 portraits of pilots of the 49th Tactical Squadron - also of their wives, and others. They were good enough they had official showings on base, which may be documented in the base newsmedia from then. These were oil on canvas paintings,, though she also drew & did watercolor, Can you help find them? Samizu was then married to Staff Sgt Herman Berry, so her paintings may be signed under her maiden name Samizu Matsuki or her married name Samizu Berry - or even S. Berry. (They married in Tokyo in 1961) I believe she was also commissioned by the 49th's Offi...