Hideo Noda
| Hideo Noda | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 野田英夫 |
| Born |
Noda Hideo (Japanese order) July 15, 1908 Santa Clara, California, United States |
| Died | January 12, 1939 (aged 30) Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese, American |
| Alma mater | California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco Art Institute), Art Students League |
| Known for | Modernist paintings, modernist murals |
Hideo Noda (July 15, 1908 - January 12, 1939), also known as Hideo Benjamin Noda and Benjamin Hideo Noda, was a Japanese-American modernist painter and muralist, member of the "Shinseisakka" () movement in Japan, student of Arnold Blanch, and uncle of Japanese printmaker Tetsuya Noda, as well as alleged communist spy recruited by Whittaker Chambers.
Noda was born on July 15, 1908, in Agnew's Village, Santa Clara, California, as the second son of Eitaro Noda, who had emigrated from a small village in the Kumamoto Prefecture of Japan. He returned for some years to his home prefecture in Kumamoto, where he attended junior high school. Returning to California, he graduated from Piedmont High School in Oakland in 1929.
Noda soon attended the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA—now San Francisco Art Institute. There he met Arnold Blanch, who taught at the Art Students League in New York. Noda saw Diego Rivera paint "The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City," April–June 1931, at the school.
Later in 1931, he was studying mural-tempera painting there under Blanch, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and George Grosz. He lived for a time at the Woodstock Art Village with fellow students Sakari Suzuki and Jack Chikamichi Yamasaki.
In 1932, he won a prize from the Chicago Art Institute and exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Washington, DC. He was a member of the Mural Painters Guild and the Woodstock Artists Association
In 1933, Noda became one of several assistants to Rivera on the artist’s work for Man at the Crossroads in Rockefeller Center Plaza in New York City. (Other assistants included: Lucienne Bloch, Stephen Pope Dimitroff, Lou Block, Arthur Niendorf, Seymour Fogel, and Antonio Sanchez Flores.)
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