Genichiro Inokuma was born in 1903 and studied at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts from 1922-26 under the Western style painter Fujishima Takeji (1865-1943). In 1935 he helped establish the Shin-Seisaku Kyokai, an artists' cultural organization, and between 1938-1940 lived in Paris where he studied under Henri Matisse. From 1945-55 Inokuma directed his own art school in Japan, completed numerous mural commissions there, and won the Mainichi Cultural and Artistic Award. After the artist moved to the United States in 1955, his work became largely abstract and he was given many solo exhibitions between 1956-72. The work of Genichiro Inokuma is in many museum collections including the National Museum of Art in Tokyo, the San Francisco ...