Asaeda, Toshio
Person
Dates
- Existence: December 9, 1893 - March 18, 1968
Summary
Toshio Asaeda was a Japanese born artist with skills in taxidermy, painting, and photography. He learned taxidermy from James L. Clark. Asaeda accompanied Crocker on several expeditions, as photographer and painter. He drew maps of the Pacific islands and made a ten-foot cast of an Easter Island head, now owned by the American Museum of Natural History. After World War II, during which Asaeda was interned at the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah, Asaeda worked at the California Academy of Sciences
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
[Paintings and Drawings from Crocker Pacific Expedition, 1936] / [Not accessible]
Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1263
Toshio Asaeda coral reef fishes collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss .A83
Scope and Contents
Collection contains 21 paintings of fish painted observed during the 1933 Templeton Crocker Expedition to the Solomon Islands, with the exception of no. 8, which was painted during the 1930-1931 Zane Grey Expedition to the South Pacific. Text on the verso of each painting (not all fishes are identified) from which titles were derived.All paintings are signed either at lower right or at lower left.All items except the last two (numbered 23-24) are 26 x 36 cm. The last...
Dates:
1931-1933
American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024-5192