Yasuo Kuniyoshi, in his New York City Studio in 1940, is at work on the painting Upside Down Table and Mask, currently on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Max Yavno, photographer. Federal ...
With their bold colors, graphic inventiveness, and narrative sweep, the woodblock prints of Utagawa Kuniyoshi look as fresh as this morning’s manga. And not just to the unsophisticated Western eye: ...
NPR: The Anxious Art Of Japanese Painter (And 'Enemy Alien') Yasuo Kuniyoshi
In 1906, 16-year-old Yasuo Kuniyoshi came to the U.S. alone from Japan. He made his name as a painter and at 40 he was showing his work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. But there was one thing ...
Boston Magazine: “Showdown! Kuniyoshi vs. Kunisada” Opens at the Museum of Fine Arts
When budding artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi saw his fellow apprentice, Utagawa Kunisada, float down the river on a boat surrounded by beautiful women, Kuniyoshi resolved to work hard at their shared craft ...
insider.si.edu: Smithsonian Presents “Artist Teacher Organizer: Yasuo Kuniyoshi in the Archives of American Art”
The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art will explore the remarkable career of American modernist painter, photographer and printmaker Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889–1953) in the exhibition, “Artist Teacher ...
Smithsonian Presents “Artist Teacher Organizer: Yasuo Kuniyoshi in the Archives of American Art”
Yasuo Kuniyoshi was an American and Japanese artist. Born in 1893 in Okayama, Japan, he immigrated to the United States in 1906. Kuniyoshi studied at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design and later ...
Witty and unpredictable: This is how Akira Watanabe, chief curator at the Ota Memorial Museum of Art, describes Utagawa Kuniyoshi, one of Japan’s most gifted 19th-century woodblock print artists. He ...