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1889 Okayama, Japan - 1953 New York City. Known for: Modernist figure, genre, still life and landscape painting.
A modernist painter, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, known as "Yas", combined in his figures, animals and still life elements of 19th-century folk art, Japanese motif, and modernist European and American art with a... Read full biography
A modernist painter, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, known as "Yas", combined in his figures, animals and still life elements of 19th-century folk art, Japanese motif, and modernist European and American art with a whimsical approach of his own. His work had precise draftsmanship, symbolism, decorative imagery,... Read full biography
A modernist painter, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, known as "Yas", combined in his figures, animals and still life elements of 19th-century folk art, Japanese motif, and modernist European and American art with a whimsical approach of his own. His work had precise draftsmanship, symbolism, decorative imagery, and he took real-world themes and injected them with fantasy and a tone of moodiness. Some of his work was decorative such as the Art-Deco motif wall paintings he did for the women's lounge in Radio... Read full biography
A modernist painter, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, known as "Yas", combined in his figures, animals and still life elements of 19th-century folk art, Japanese motif, and modernist European and American art with a whimsical approach of his own. His work had precise draftsmanship, symbolism, decorative imagery, and he took real-world themes and injected them with fantasy and a tone of moodiness. Some of his work was decorative such as the Art-Deco motif wall paintings he did for the women's lounge in Radio City Music Hall in New York. He was a native of Japan, born in Okayama, and attended elementary and technical schools there, studying dyeing and weaving. He came to the United States at age sixteen with his family in 1906, and they settled in Seattle... Read full biography
A modernist painter, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, known as "Yas", combined in his figures, animals and still life elements of 19th-century folk art, Japanese motif, and modernist European and American art with a whimsical approach of his own. His work had precise draftsmanship, symbolism, decorative imagery, and he took real-world themes and injected them with fantasy and a tone of moodiness. Some of his work was decorative such as the Art-Deco motif wall paintings he did for the women's lounge in Radio City Music Hall in New York. He was a native of Japan, born in Okayama, and attended elementary and technical schools there, studying dyeing and weaving. He came to the United States at age sixteen with his family in 1906, and they settled in Seattle where he worked in an office building as a porter. He attended night school at the Los Angeles Sch... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Art Deco
- •Cartoon Drawing, Cartoon Figures
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Barnyard Fowl, Chickens, Poultry, Roosters
- •Birds, Ornithology, Avian Art
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Humor, Whimsy
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Still Life
- •Street Scenes, Street Genre
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •War Scenes, Military Genre, Figure, Portrait, Battles
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Mexico and/or Central America
- •New Mexico Before 1940
- •Ogunquit, Maine
- •Taos, New Mexico Before 1940
- •Woodstock, New York
Art Association
- •Salons of America
- •Society of Independent Artists-
- •Woodstock Art Association, New York
Art Teacher
- •Hamilton Easter Field
- •John Fabian Carlson
- •Robert Henri
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Teacher
- •Broadmoor Art Academy, Colorado Springs, Student
- •Broadmoor Art Academy, Teacher
- •National Academy of Design School, New York, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Art Collection
- •Edith and Milton Lowenthal
- •Rita and Daniel Fraad Collection
- •Rockefeller Center, New York City
- •Sara Roby Foundation
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •Printmaking Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Asian
- •Japanese
Artist Colony
- •Ogunquit Artist Colony, Maine
- •Woodstock Art Colony
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Edith Halpert Downtown Gallery, New York
- •Whitney Studio Club, Later Whitney Museum of American Art
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Trans-Mississippi & International Exposition, 1898, Omaha
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •Salons of America-
- •Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Metropolitan Museum of Art
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts