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Women Who Made Art in Japanese Internment Camps Are Getting Their Due

A traveling exhibit will focus on the work of three Japanese American women artists, Hisako Hibi, Miki Hayakawa and Miné Okubo.

By Rebecca Carballo

Ibuki Hibi Lee remembers waking up to the sounds of her mother’s paintbrush hitting the canvas in their small New York City apartment.

After World War II, during which their family was incarcerated at an internment camp in Utah, they moved to New York City in 1945 so that Hibi Lee’s parents, Hisako and “George” Matsusaburo Hibi, could pursue art. Hisako Hibi would always find time to paint, often early in the mornings before she had to start work as a dressmaker, her daughter said.

The family struggled, Hibi Lee recalled. They lived in a modest apartment for $20 a month and struggled to pay bills. Her mother received some recognition throughout her career but never at the level of her male peers. Now, 32 years after Hibi’s death, her work is part of “ Pictures of Belonging,” a traveling exhibition that features the artwork of three Japanese American women of the pre-World War II generation at some of the nation’s most well-known museums, including the Smithsonian.

“My mother was just a very humble farmer’s daughter, she would say,” Hibi Lee said. “She would be very surprised and flabbergasted by all the attention to her.”

The exhibition debuted in February at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City, where it will remain through June. The exhibition will then travel to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia; the Monterey Museum of Art in Monterey, Calif.; and finally the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles in 2026.

Besides Hibi, the exhibition will feature Miki Hayakawa and Miné Okubo, who also were incarcerated or had family incarcerated with other Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II.

Hibi and Okubo were interned at Topaz Relocation Center near Delta, Utah, from 1942 until 1944 and 1945. While Hayakawa herself was not detained, her parents were interned at the Tanforan center in San Bruno, Calif., and later at Topaz as well. Hayakawa relocated to Santa Fe, N.M., to avoid internment.

An estimated 120,000 people of Japanese descent were ordered to leave their homes and jobs on the West Coast in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and were sent to internment camps, where they were held without due process. At Tanforan, many lived in converted horse stalls, and many were later sent to Topaz.

Most were U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents, and most of the camps were remote and in the West. In the camps, surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards, some Japanese Americans died because of inadequate medical care, and some were killed by military guards for allegedly resisting orders.

During these dark times, many people turned to art, and the Topaz Art School was born, where hundreds took classes in still-life and architectural drawing within the internment camp at Tanforan. The teachers were interned, too. Both Hibi and Okubo taught classes there.

Those classes provided a source of comfort, said Kimi Hill, granddaughter of Chiura Obata, a renowned artist who co-founded the school, and family historian.

“They established the arts schools as a way to ground themselves, find a purpose but ultimately just find their humanity in this situation,” Hill said.

About halfway through the exhibit, visitors will see the work made by the artists while they were at the internment camps. ShiPu Wang, the curator of the exhibit, said he didn’t want their experience then to overpower the exhibit.

“My approach is that these artists — because of their very long careers — should not be defined by that one period,” Dr. Wang said. “In fact, that injustice and trauma did not stop them from making art. So to stop there at that period is not really seeing the full picture and also misses the point about resilience and perseverance.”

It also isn’t always obvious which paintings were made in the internment camps, he said, noting that most of Hibi’s paintings were landscapes.

“If you did not know the context you would just think, Oh, that’s just beautiful nature,” Dr. Wang said. “But artists under incarceration weren’t just reacting to nature. Painting was a way of making sense of what was happening.”

For Dr. Wang, the exhibit is about “artists that were very active and productive, that we know very little about,” he said.

There are several explanations as to why prolific artists fall out of the public eye, Dr. Wang said. If they don’t have a gallery representing them or a museum collecting their work, becoming well known could be challenging, he said.

In the case of Hayakawa, who died at age 53, a gallery had owned her work, which was sold off to various private collectors, posing a challenge to curators who might want to showcase her work in museums. Dr. Wang spent about seven years searching for some of her work.

When Dr. Wang was selecting pieces, he tried to pick representative works from each period of the artists’ lives. For instance, when Hibi moved from New York to San Francisco in 1954, her work became much more abstract. This change in style also came during a time of major upheaval in her personal life, when she lost her husband and had to raise their two young children on her own.

Okubo also moved toward abstract art as her career progressed. After she chose to leave her job as a commercial illustrator at Forbes and focus on fine arts, she went “back to basics,” Dr. Wang said. Museumgoers can observe her work progress throughout the years and see her art become simpler with consolidated shapes but stronger colors.

Dr. Wang said he hoped that people would leave the exhibit with a nuanced understanding of the artists’ lives and careers.

“It’s not just a greatest hits show,” he said. “It’s a whole journey.”

Rebecca Carballo is a reporter based in New York. More about Rebecca Carballo

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Bonner’s Irish Pub has a history dating back to 1894. It may soon be something else entirely.

W hen Danny Bonner bought his eponymous pub 30 years ago, it was one more aging Irish bar in Center City. By 1994, the corner bar at 23rd and Sansom had been operating for a century, and had changed hands enough times that much of its legend and lore had long ago faded into the bar smoke. There were bygone tales of 19th century brawls and Gilded Age dancing girls. Bawdy yarns of bathtub booze and stricken barmen. There was the day a president stopped by for lunch — and a ghost was said to hurl pots in the kitchen.

Bonner’s had seen better days.

“It was on the skids, really,” recalls Bonner.

Bonner brought new life to the old pub. Soon, new regulars — including, for a time, me — discovered the scruffy charms of the bar that sits like a village inn in the shadows of the Walnut Street Bridge. In recent years, as the neighborhood grew ritzy, and the pandemic shuttered more than a few nearby spots, Bonner’s found itself one of the last Irish pubs standing in its corner of Center City.

Now, the old pub with staying power may soon be built into something wholly new.

‘It would still carry on’

In February, Bonner listed the three-story building for sale. The asking price is $6 million. He is seeking a partner to develop the property, possibly into a boutique hotel . A sleeker Bonner’s could be built in the lobby, he said.

“Like a little cocktail lounge,” he said. “It would still carry on.”

Smoking a cigarette outside the pub on a recent afternoon, Bonner said the time to develop was right. He pointed out some of the gleaming high-rises and townhomes that have transformed the blocks around the Schuylkill River Trail.

“We’re not in the low-rent district anymore, my friend,” he said.

Thirty years ago, Bonner bought the building for a little over $222,000. A lifelong barman originally from West Philadelphia, Bonner built up a new customer base. Penn and Drexel students, troop members from the historic 23rd Street Armory, and postal workers from the now shuttered 30th Street Post Office. And soon, the newer arrivals to the neighborhood. As the stools filled, he renovated the place, expanding the barroom and sprucing up the dining rooms.

Presidents, prohibition, and ‘bad characters’

Bonner’s has had many lives. All of them whiskey-fueled. A proprietor named Andrew Smith first opened a pub on the property in 1894, according to 19th century newspaper articles. His new pub sat in a working-class neighborhood one block from the Schuylkill. The gleaming Baltimore & Ohio Railroad station, designed by Frank Furness, had opened down the street. The pub’s name may be lost to time, but its alleged shenanigans are not.

Just two years after opening its doors, a neighbor, Frank Brady, pleaded with City Hall to yank the pub’s liquor license. In a two-day hearing, which made for colorful newsprint, Brady exhausted the court’s patience by reading from a list of complaints.

“Drunken men had gone into the saloon and came out still drunker,” Brady fumed. Come Saturdays, “workingmen with large families drank all the time until they were paralyzed,” he said. “All the customers were bad characters,” he said, huffing about one man “who had not drawn a sober breath for a year.” Women drank there too, he griped.

“He said he saw two men accompanied by girls go into the place beastly drunk, and the girls were dancing the ‘Can-Can,’” a reporter noted.

In true Philly fashion, Smith may have had friends in high places. He kept his license after a steady stream of beat cops and even the superintendent of a nearby home for inebriates refuted Brady’s claims, pointing out that despite his remonstrations he had once been a regular customer himself.

By the 1920s, the bar had a new name: Connors’. Frank Connors was an Irish immigrant and World War I veteran who bought the bar with money earned working as a maitre d’ at the Union League, said his grandson, Stephen Kane.

“He got off the boat and worked the kitchens until he had enough,” said Kane.

His grandfather was a dapper man who wore a diamond tiepin and carried a can with a hidden gun built inside it, Kane said. He treated regulars like family, and made sure everyone had enough to drink during Prohibition (the bar served whiskey distilled in a nearby rowhouse, the legend goes).

Connors died in 1945. According to family lore, he suffered a heart attack while fighting a bartender whom he found stealing booze from the basement.

“He saw that liquor bottles were missing, and found a secret sliding door,” Kane said. “He blew a gasket.”

For years, Connors’ wife, Mary, and their three daughters ran things. Kane’s mom, Catherine, liked to tell about how when Franklin Roosevelt addressed 100,000 supporters at Franklin Field, his sharpshooters set up on the bar roof. Afterward, the riflemen plopped down for hot roast beef sandwiches and mugs of beer.

“She always said they were well-dressed, they were gentlemen, and they were good tippers,” Kane said.

The bar would exchange hands a few more times — and be owned by a member of the Cavanaugh bar dynasty, who still operate three pubs in Philly — when a president strolled in. Jimmy Carter was down in the polls in 1980 when he stopped in for lunch with Mayor Bill Green while campaigning in Philly.

“He wanted an authentic Philly Irish bar experience,” said Tom Leonard, who was city controller at the time, and lunched on platters of corn beef and cabbage with Carter.

“He wasn’t a big drinker,” said Leonard. “He may have ordered a glass of beer just to toast it, but he left very happy. He enjoyed it.”

For years, the room was known as the “President’s Room” and was decorated with framed portraits of presidents.

‘A new chapter’

Bonner has been telling nervous customers that a potential sale does not mean the end of the bar.

“It will be a new chapter,” he says.

Regulars, like Max Kneis, 28, a second year student at Wharton, are glad to hear it. Kneis first discovered Bonner’s as a member of the school’s hockey club, which fills the bar after every practice and game (the same goes for the school’s rugby and soccer clubs).

He doesn’t want to imagine the bar not being around, he said, as longtime bartender Cathi Brennan served him up a pint.

“This is one of the last true watering holes in the neighborhood,” he said. “We don’t want it to go anywhere.”

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