Pastoral Landscape Drawing Attributed to Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Item Details

Untitled, 1921
Graphite on Nibroc Bond paper
Unsigned
“Original drawing by Yasuo Kuniyoshi 1921, Bumpei Usui” inscribed to mat by previous owner

Provenance
Possibly acquired by Bumpei Usui
Given to previous owner, Theodora Sangre (Teddy Settele) (New York, born 1901)
Passed down to descent

Painter, printmaker, and photographer Yasuo Kuniyoshi was born in Japan and emigrated to the United States in 1906 at age sixteen. He studied at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design, the National Academy of Design, and the Art Students League in New York under the tutelage of Kenneth Hayes Miller. Known for incorporating symbolic motifs in his work, Kuniyoshi’s compositions were conglomerations of painting from life and from memory. In 1948, he became the first living artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. His work has been represented by other renowned institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.

Condition

- discoloration overall; appoximately .25" tear to upper edge at left quadrant; approximately .75" tear to left edge at lower quadrant; tape to verso around perimeter; sheet is cut unevenly at left edge; diagonal crease to lower left quadrant; wear to frame

Dimensions

- measures frame; sheet measures 10.25"W x 8.5"H

Item #

ITMG016908