Kenzo Okada, born in Yokahoma, Japan in 1902 as the son of a wealthy industrialist enjoyed a privileged life in Japan. Okada attended Tokyo Fine Arts University where he painted in traditional... Read full biography
Kenzo Okada, born in Yokahoma, Japan in 1902 as the son of a wealthy industrialist enjoyed a privileged life in Japan. Okada attended Tokyo Fine Arts University where he painted in traditional realist style. Despite his parent's apprehension towards his career in art, determination brought Okada to... Read full biography
Kenzo Okada, born in Yokahoma, Japan in 1902 as the son of a wealthy industrialist enjoyed a privileged life in Japan. Okada attended Tokyo Fine Arts University where he painted in traditional realist style. Despite his parent's apprehension towards his career in art, determination brought Okada to Paris in 1924, where he studied with fellow Japanese expatriate, Tsuguji Fujita. Then in 1927, he returned to Japan to host his first one-man show, as a realist painter, at the Michido Gallery in... Read full biography
Kenzo Okada, born in Yokahoma, Japan in 1902 as the son of a wealthy industrialist enjoyed a privileged life in Japan. Okada attended Tokyo Fine Arts University where he painted in traditional realist style. Despite his parent's apprehension towards his career in art, determination brought Okada to Paris in 1924, where he studied with fellow Japanese expatriate, Tsuguji Fujita. Then in 1927, he returned to Japan to host his first one-man show, as a realist painter, at the Michido Gallery in Tokyo. He also painted murals for the Hilton Hotel in Tokyo. He emigrated to the United States and arrived in New York in 1950, during the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement. His work underwent complete transformation. He became an abstract... Read full biography
Kenzo Okada, born in Yokahoma, Japan in 1902 as the son of a wealthy industrialist enjoyed a privileged life in Japan. Okada attended Tokyo Fine Arts University where he painted in traditional realist style. Despite his parent's apprehension towards his career in art, determination brought Okada to Paris in 1924, where he studied with fellow Japanese expatriate, Tsuguji Fujita. Then in 1927, he returned to Japan to host his first one-man show, as a realist painter, at the Michido Gallery in Tokyo. He also painted murals for the Hilton Hotel in Tokyo. He emigrated to the United States and arrived in New York in 1950, during the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement. His work underwent complete transformation. He became an abstract painter in the American fashion, but with an inexpressible Oriental nature, "with textures remi... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (47)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists
2000
Herskovic, Marika
393 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making
1999
Passantino, Erika D (editor)
819 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
Betty Parsons Artist, Dealer, Collector
1991
Hall, Lee
192 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The Influence of Oriental Thought on Postwar American Painting and Sculpture
1988
Clarke, David J
410 pages
A Concise History of Modern Painting
1988
Read, Herbert
418 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
The Empire State Collection Art for the Public
1987
Sandler, Irving
214 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection
1984
Severinghaus, J Walter
333 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Guggenheim Museum Collection Handbook/ 1900-1980
1980
Barnett, Vivian Endicott
526 pages (color)
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro)
298 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1974 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
University of Illinois
136 pages
Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art
1973
Carnegie Institute
196 pages (color)
Contemporary Art 1942-72
1972
Sandler, Irving (intro)
479 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
Indianapolis Museum of Art Catalogue of American Paintings
1970
Weinhardt, Carl J Jr (editor)
166 pages
Duncan Phillips Retrospective for a Critic (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Hormats, Bess
62 pages
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
Traveler's Guide to American Art
1968
Norman, Jane & Theodore
436 pages
An American Collection The Neuberger Collection
1968
Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott
463 pages (color)
Sixty Paintings Brooks Memorial Art Gallery
1966
McNight, Robert J
70 pages
Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Baur, John I H
91 pages (color)
Profile: Art and Artists in the USA on the Occasion of 4th Congress ...
1963
International Assoc. of Art
119 pages
Art U S A Now (2 volumes)
1962
Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness
474 pages (color)
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection
1961
Art Institute of Chicago
490 pages (color)
American Art of Our Century
1961
Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur
309 pages (color)
Conversations with Artists 35 Painters, Sculptors and Architects
1961
Rodman, Selden
234 pages
60 American Painters 1960 Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties (Exhibition catalog)
1960
Walker Art Center
78 pages (color)
Nature in Abstraction Relation to Nature in 20th Century Art (Exhibition catalog)