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When the trustees of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art started planning for a show of "Nineteen Living Americans" in 1929, one candidate among the artists gave them pause. Could Japanese-born Yasuo Kuniyoshi be considered an American? "I have worked and lived here since I was a boy," Kuniyoshi argued. "I am just as much American in my approach and thinking as the next fellow." He got into the show-and went on to win a reputation as a man who lived in the busiest and most bustling of nations and pictured it as a land of long...
...Okayama peddler of dried chestnuts and cereals, Kuniyoshi got his first glimpse of the U.S. through the prosperous-looking tourists who came into town. When the time came for him to be called up into the imperial army, he decided that the U.S. was where he wanted to be. His father managed to scrape together $200 for him, but Kuniyoshi was so confident about the land of opportunity that just after he landed in Seattle in 1906 he sent all but $50 back...
...American Federation of Arts), which is due to open in Dallas this month, eventually wind up in Australia for the Olympics, under the auspices of the U.S. Information Agency. The four pictures in dispute: the Addison Gallery of American Art's Skaters by the late Yasuo Kuniyoshi; Cleveland Museum of Art's The Park, Winter, by Leon Kroll, 71; Manhattan Museum of Modern Art's Fishermen by William Zorach, 69; and National Pastime, by Ben Shahn...
...Inness and Thomas Eakins, and the Midwest's Big Three, Grant Wood, Thomas Benton and John Steuart Curry. They are also willing to bet their money on modern European masters-Braque, Matisse, Henry Moore and Giacometti-and the still-debated U.S. Painters Max Weber and the late Yasuo Kuniyoshi (opposite...
Died. Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 59, prizewinning Japanese expatriate painter; of cancer; in New York City...