Miki Hayakawa

Miki Hayakawa was a Japanese-born American modernist painter known for her keen observation, treatment of color, and use of pattern and space in portraiture and landscape. She was a leading woman artist within the vibrant multi-ethnic and multicultural art community in the San Francisco Bay Area beginning in 1920 until the early months of World War II when she relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico to avoid incarceration under Executive Order 9066. There Hayakawa became part of the art establishment in Santa Fe and continued to grow her career as a painter until her early death in 1953.