Mr. Mikami lectures widely, writes popular treatments on oriental brush technique, is a TV personality, paints a prodigious number of pictures each year, and sells very well on three continents. These paintings are palette-knife sketches of trite scenes. They remind one of thousands of other paintings by thousands of other rather fluent scene painters.
—Knute Stiles
Hans Holbein, the Younger. “Portrait of a Young Woman with a White Coif,” oil and tempera on panel, 4⅜" dia., 1514. Batch Bequest, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The painting is in thepermanent collection of the Museum, which will open its new buildings to the public early in April 1965.
February 1965
VOL. 3, NO. 5
