Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience

The Wing Luke Asian Museum will use funds to complete the conservation and restoration of the painting, Rock Island Dam, dating to circa 1935, by Japanese-American Painter Takuichi Fujii, a first-generation Japanese immigrant and a member of the multiethnic artist association, The Group of Twelve, in Seattle. The painting illuminates understanding of the Japanese-American community before World War II, the impacts of the incarceration experience on the Japanese-American community, the pioneering Asian Pacific-American artists, and cross-cultural exchange among artists in Seattle before World War II.