Yasuo Kuniyoshi

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Yasuo Kuniyoshi was a Japanese-born American modernist painter known for his distinctive figurative works and significant role in early 20th-century American art.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Japanese-born American
modernist artist
painter
person
birthDate 1893-09-01
birthPlace Okayama, Japan
countryOfCitizenship Japan
United States of America
deathDate 1953-05-14
educatedAt Art Students League of New York
National Academy of Design
exhibitedAt Grand Central Art Galleries
surface form: Downtown Gallery, New York

Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
familyName Kuniyoshi
fieldOfWork painting
genre figurative art
givenName Yasuo
hasWorkInCollection Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
immigratedTo United States of America
influencedBy American folk art
Modernism
surface form: European modernism

Japanese artistic traditions
languageOfWorkOrName English
Japanese
memberOf American Artists’ Congress
Artists Union
movement American modernism
modernism
name Yasuo Kuniyoshi NERFINISHED
nationality Japanese-American
notableFor distinctive figurative paintings
role in early 20th-century American art
notableWork Circus Girl Resting
Little Joe with Cow
Strong Woman and Child
occupation painter
printmaker
teacher
positionHeld president of Artists Equity Association
residence New York City
style bold outlines
distorted proportions
muted color palette
simplified forms
subjectMatter circus scenes
self-portraits
still lifes
women
taughtAt Art Students League of New York
workLocation New York City

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Kenneth Hayes Miller notableStudent Yasuo Kuniyoshi