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Oyama City Museum

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Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Oyama City Museum
Phone:
+81 285-45-5331

Hours:
Sunday9am - 5pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday9am - 5pm
Wednesday9am - 5pm
Thursday9am - 5pm
Friday9am - 5pm
Saturday9am - 5pm


Harue Oyama McVay is a ceramist born in Honolulu, Hawaii. While growing up, she had the opportunity to watch the landscape painter D. Howard Hitchcock , who rented his studio from the Oyama family. As an undergraduate at the University of Hawaii, she enrolled in a ceramics class taught by Claude Horan. She graduated from the university in 1950 and earned an MA from Ohio State University in 1951. She taught at the University of Hawaii from 1951 until 1993, when she retired as a professor emeritus. McVay is best known for starting with wheel thrown clay and then manipulating it, often into organic forms.The Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Museum of Arts and Design , and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are among the public collections holding work by Harue Oyama McVay.
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