Reuben Tam

Reuben Tam (1916–1991) was an American landscape painter, educator, poet and graphic artist. He was born in Kapa'a on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i 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 Kaua'i and died there on January 3, 1991 of lymphoma.
Tam is best known for his semi-abstract landscapes showing both land and sea, such as From Cliffs to Evening. The Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, Massachusetts), the Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, New York ), the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio), the Corcoran Gallery (Washington D...