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THBYasuo Kuniyoshi (Japanese - American, 1889-1953) Drawing
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LiveApr 30, 2023
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Yasuo Kuniyoshi (Japanese - American, 1889-1953) Drawing. Title - Seated Woman. Pencil on paper drawing. Signed lower right Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Heydenryk frame label on the back. Measures 12.3 inches high, 9.5 inches wide. Frame measures 19 inches high, 16.4 inches wide. In good condition. A Whitney Museum of American Art 1948 exhibition catalog is included with drawing. The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in 2015 was the first comprehensive overview of his work by a U.S. museum in more than 65 years. The exhibition traced Kuniyoshi's career through 66 of his finest paintings and drawings, chosen from leading public and private collections in America and Japan.
From The Smithsonian American Art Museum - Americanart.si.edu: The Smithsonian American Art Museum organized a major exhibition in 2015 of Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953), a preeminent 20th century modernist whose talents and contributions rivaled those of his contemporaries including Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keefe and Stuart Davis. Kuniyoshi emigrated to America from Japan as a teenager, rising to prominence in the New York art world during the 1920s to become one of the most esteemed artists in America between the two world wars. He drew on American folk art, Japanese design and iconography and European modernism to create a distinctive visual style. Kuniyoshi defined himself as an American artist while at the same time remaining very aware that his Japanese origins played an important role in his identity and artistic practices. The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi is the first comprehensive overview of his work by a U.S. museum in more than 65 years. The exhibition traces Kuniyoshi's career through 66 of his finest paintings and drawings, chosen from leading public and private collections in America and Japan. The guest curator is the leading Kuniyoshi scholar Tom Wolf, professor of art history at Bard College. Joann Moser, deputy chief curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is co-curator. Kuniyoshi was thoroughly integrated into American life and the art world, but immigration law prevented him from becoming an American citizen. Classified as an enemy alien after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he remained steadfastly on the side of his adopted country during the painful war years, working with the Office of War Information to create artworks indicting Japanese atrocities. After the war, Kuniyoshi developed a compelling late style, with bitter subjects and paradoxically bright colors. His inventive, humorous early works often included subtle color harmonies, simplified shapes, oddly proportioned figures and an eccentric handling of space and scale. His work became more sensuous and worldly after two long stays in Paris, as he painted moody, reflective women and still lifes with unusual objects.
From Askart: Born in Okayama Kuniyoshi (1889-1953) arrived in the U.S. in 1906 and the following year moved to Los Angeles. He began his art studies at the School of Art & Design during 1908-10. He continued in NYC in the studio of Kenneth Hayes Miller and at the ASL and NAD. Most of his career was spent in NYC. He died there on May 14, 1953. A modernist, his works were often based upon imagery and symbolic motif. His subjects included sensuous females, somber landscapes, cows, children and other figures. Exhibits: Olympiad, LACMA, 1932; San Francisco Art Association, 1932; Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1934 (prize); GGIE, 1939; Calif. WC Society, 1939-42; Whitney Museum, 1948 (solo); Univ. of Texas (Austin), 1975 (retrospective).Condition
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