Kazuo Nakamura

Kazuo Nakamura (1926–2002) was a Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor best known as a founding member of Toronto's Painters Eleven group in the 1950s. He created innovative abstract compositions and landscape paintings inspired by nature, mathematics, and science, with an orderly and restrained style that set him apart from his contemporaries. Among the first major Japanese Canadian artists of the twentieth century, his idealism about science drew comparisons to fellow Canadian modernists Lawren Harris and Jock Macdonald.