Reuben Tam

Reuben Tam

Reuben Tam (1916–1991) was an American landscape painter, educator and graphic artist. He was born in Kapa'a on the Hawaiian island of Kauai on Jan. 17, 1916. He earned a BA degree from the University of Hawaii in 1937, and also studied at the California School of Fine Art, at Columbia University with Meyer Schapiro and at the New School of Social Research in New York City. From 1946 to the 1970s, he taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School where his students included Frances Kornbluth. He also spent many summers painting on Monhegan Island in Maine. Upon retirement in the 1970s, Tam returned to Hawaii and died there January 1991 of lymphoma.

Reuben Tam

Reuben Tam

Reuben Tam

Reuben Tam

Reuben Tam

Reuben Tam

Reuben Tam

Reuben Tam

Reuben Tam

Reuben Tam

Reuben Tam