Hiroshi Shimazaki | Words and Art

Life ’ s Next Chapter

Hiroshi Shimazaki , Immigrants Leaving Ellis Island , circa 1910

The first time I was in New York City was 1967 . I remember at Battery Park enjoying the sweeping view of the harbour and sketched the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island , while listening to the variety of languages drifting by . As America ' s largest and most active immigration station from 1892 to 1924 , Ellis Island welcomed over twelve million immigrants . This painting , generated from archival photos , depicts immigrants from Europe leaving Ellis Island after a lengthy quarantine . Manhattan beckons .

ARTA member Hiroshi Shimazaki is a geographer / artist who has been practicing watercolour landscape sketching and painting for sixty years . Here he offers one window into an artist ’ s mind .

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