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STEEL--Kuniko Nakamura, (Born June 3, 1929) died on Wednesday, May 13th, after a distinguished and award winning career as an artist. She studied with several important artists while living in Paris and later New York. After growing up in Tokyo as a child, Mrs. Steel attended the University of California at Berkeley, and then studied art in Chicago, Paris, and New York, won numerous prizes in juried art shows throughout the United States for her paintings, and once participated in an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was a member of the Art Students League in New York, was a dedicated volunteer as a restorer at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and also volunteered at New York Hospital. After living in New York for many years, and leading a very active life, she moved to California in 1995. She was the widow of the late John Steel, originally from Munich, Germany, and more recently from New York. He was a member of the Lowenbrau beer family. She is survived by her brother-in-law and nephews, Howard, Eric and Scott Takaoka, her sister and brother-in-law, Tom and Eunice Yoshio Yanari, and her nephew and nieces Carl, Doris and Yoko Yanari, and great-nephews Brandon and Brian Yanari, all of Palo Alto, California. She is also survived by her stepdaughter Danielle Steel, of Paris and San Francisco, and grandchildren Beatrix Seidenberg, Trevor, Todd, Samantha, Victoria, Vanessa, Maximillian and Zara Traina, and great- grandchildren Sebastian and Isabel Seidenberg, and Daisy, John, and Delphina Traina, of New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Kuniko was greatly loved by all who knew her and will be much missed. Funeral Services were held in California on May 19th. Interment in New York. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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STEEL--Kuniko Nakamura, (Born June 3, 1929) died on Wednesday, May 13th, after a distinguished and award winning career as an artist. She studied with several important artists while living in […]

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