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Hisako Hibi

Hisako Hibi studied at the California School of Art, where she met her husband George Matsusaburo Hibi. They were both established artists that has their work appeared even before the war. Hisako Hibi and George Matsusaburo Hibi's art style were inspired by painters from the late nineteenth-century. The painter that Hisako Hibi was heavily influenced by Mary Cassatt.

When Hisako Hibi her family was sent to internment camp, her artwork was later influenced by the conditions that they were all accommodated. She was raising her two children in the camp, having her document her experiences as a painting she created, Laundry Room (1944). In the camp bathing facilities were inadequate for the inmates, so the mothers improvised by bathing their children in the laundry room.

Later in her years, 1985 Hisako Hibi was awarded and honored as Artist of the Year by San Francisco Arts Commission for all the lifelong contribution that she has done to the San Francisco art scene. She also became a member of the Influential Asian American Women Artist Association.

Post interment her artwork and on how she goes forward on making her paintings has evolved and improved, she was abandoned sketching all together in her process and just paint directly on the canvas. Now Hisako Hibi's art style is more abstract like one of her six post-war paintings like for example Autumn (1970).