Sakari Suzuki (10 October 1899 – January 1995) was an American artist born in Japan.

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Suzuki was born in Iwate,

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. He moved to San Francisco in 1918 to join his father. Sukuzi attended California School of Fine Arts there in 1924. From 1932 until 1936 he exhibited in New York.Sakari Suzuki
Ask Art, accessed December 2011 In 1936 he worked for the

Federal Art Project The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administrati ...

creating murals at the

Willard Parker Hospital The Willard Parker Hospital (1885-1955) for communicable diseases was located on East 16th Street along the East River in New York City. It was founded by the City of New York in 1885. It was named after Willard Parker, a prominent physician and ...

, which is now demolished. Suzuki moved to

Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

in about 1951 and died in January 1995.

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1899 births 1995 deaths People from Iwate Prefecture Japanese emigrants to the United States American artists of Japanese descent Federal Art Project artists 20th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century American male artists {{US-painter-stub