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Takao Tanabe is a landscape artist of international
reputation and an influential teacher of younger
generations of Canadian artists. The son of a commercial
fisherman, Tak Tanabe was born in Prince Rupert in 1926.
During the second World War, he was interned with other
Japanese-Canadians in British Columbia's Interior.
He has painted and studied in Winnipeg, New York, England,
Italy, Denmark and Japan. He has served as head of the art
department at the Banff School of Fine Arts and has also
served on juries and committees at the National Capital
Commission and Canada Council.
Tak Tanabe's landscapes are evocative of British Columbia
at its finest - the rolling hills and grassy meadows of
the Cariboo, the lonely seascapes, intriguing cloud
formations and breathtaking dawns and sunsets of the
coast, and the winter beauty of snow and ice.
Powerful straight-line horizons dominate his works. His
skies can be dark and foreboding or brilliantly coloured,
sometimes reflected in the water or shading the land
below.
Working now from his studios in Errington, near Parksville,
and Vancouver, Tak Tanabe's outstanding achievements in
the world of art continue to be recognized and much
sought-after by collectors across Canada and around the
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