1. Hideo Noda, known as Hideo Benjamin Noda and Benjamin Hideo Noda, was a Japanese-American modernist painter and muralist, member of the Shinseisakuha movement in Japan, student of Arnold Blanch, and uncle of Japanese printmaker Tetsuya Noda, as well as alleged communist spy recruited by Whittaker Chambers.
Hideo Noda returned for some years to his home prefecture in Kumamoto, where he attended junior high school.
Hideo Noda lived for a time at the Woodstock Art Village with fellow students Sakari Suzuki and Jack Chikamichi Yamasaki.
Hideo Noda was a member of the Mural Painters Guild and the Woodstock Artists Association.
In 1933, Hideo 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.
In 1935, Hideo Noda's murals lost out to those of Edward Laning for Ellis Island:.
The Hideo Noda mural was promptly rejected because Negro cotton pickers were shown wearing turtlenecked sweaters and creased trousers, because the creature pulling a poor blackamoor's farm cart seemed to be a full-blooded Percheron stallion.
Artist Hideo Noda threw up his hands and his job, went back to California.
Hideo Noda joined the John Reed Club of New York, where Eitaro Ishigaki and "Chuzo Tomatzu" were founding members.
Sherman and Hideo Noda spent an unsuccessful year in Tokyo, at the end of which the cell closed suddenly and both returned to New York.
Hideo Noda claims he was a member of the American Communist Party.
Hideo Noda says he was a relative of one of Japanese premier, Prince Fumimaro Konoe.
At that time, Chambers advised him to get out of the underground: Hideo Noda reacted by denouncing Chambers as a "Trotskyist wrecker".
Hideo Noda died of a brain tumor on January 12,1939, in Tokyo.
Hideo Noda's wife had just returned to New York, and he was to join her shortly.
However, as Japan's militarism became threatening to the US, Hideo Noda was actually "censured" because he was a second-generation Japanese American who had been educated in Japan in his youth.
In New York, Eitaro Ishigaki painted a black history mural for a Harlem courthouse, while he, Isamu Noguchi, and Hideo Noda each produced artworks of lynchings.
Hideo Noda receives mention in many books about Rivera that detail the New York mural.
The Noda Fund was established by the Board of Education to use proceeds from the sale of a mural by artist Benjamin Hideo Noda to establish a fund from which the interest earned is used for grants to support visual arts at the secondary level.
The Hideo Noda account is fully funded, and there are no changes to report at the second interim and there are no significant changes in the multi-year projects.