SEATTLE, WA.- Kamekichi Tokita and Kenjiro Nomura, first-generation Japanese Americans, were well known in 1930s Seattle for their American realist style of landscape painting. Painting Seattle: Kamekichi Tokita & Kenjiro Nomura, opening October 22, 2011, highlights the landscapes they knew well—neighborhoods in and around Japantown or Nihonmachi (today part of the International District), the working waterfront, and the farmlands cultivated by Japanese American families. Along with such artists as Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, and Ambrose and Viola Patterson, Tokita and Nomura were part of the Seattle modernist collective Group of Twelve. The intimate exhibition of approximately twenty works will feature eight paintings from SAM’s collection. Tokita and Nomura were the most prominent of a group of first-generation Japanese-American painters in the 1920s and 30s in Seattle, and their paintings