Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
15-1/4 x 22-1/4 in. 23-1/8 x 29-3/16 x 1-1/2 in. (framed/Plexiglas)
Mark Description
Signed and dated in ink at center: Y. KUNIYOSHI 24
Accession Number
Credit Line
The Robert and Traude Hensel Collection
Copyright
Collection
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color Palette
Provenance
Robert and Traude Hensel, Indianapolis, Indiana; given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1992.
Gallery Labels
Drawings such as Squash marked Kuniyoshi's emergence as a significant young artist in New York during the early 1920s. they were the highlights of his first three one-man shows and were popular enough with the buying public to underwrite his first trip to Europe in 1925. These carefully rendered pen-and-ink still lifes with, in this example, an added whisper of color, were recognized for their reserve and accuracy as well as their originality and modernity. Kuniyoshi's use of bird's-eye perspective, with objects rising to an almost vertical plane, was seen as unorthodox and thereby modern, but it was also the traditional viewpoint employed by painters for centuries in Kuniyoshi's native Japan.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi
American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution
April 3, 2015 - August 30, 2015
The Shores of a Dream: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's Early Work in America
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
September 7, 1996 - March 30, 1997
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