Word: yasuo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year's coveted first prize in the Carnegie Institute's annual painting exhibition went to Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 51-year-old Japanese-born Manhattanite, for his delicate, deft, still-life fantasy. Room no. Last week the votes of the plain gallery-goers were finally added up, revealing as the people's choice a billowing farmscape with a threatening sky. Grey and Gold, by John Rogers Cox, 28-year-old former director of the Swope Gallery at Terre Haute...
Morris Kantor, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Waldo Peirce, Raphael Soyer, Max Weber, William Zorach. There was even Walkowitz as Cyclops (by Adolph Gottlieb), a large green-and-ocher canvas in which Walkowitz looked like a giant grasshopper brooding over the canals of Mars. And there was Walkowitz (by Frank Kleinholz), entering the gates of heaven, and meeting St. Peter, who had also taken up painting and was doing an angel...
...Whitney show started with the lacy, architectural etchings of such classicists as Connecticut's John Taylor Arms and Philadelphia's Joseph Pennell. the gloomy, satirical lithographs of such old warhorses as Manhattan's George Bellows, ended with samples by big-city artists like Adolf Dehn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Paul Cadmus, Midwestern and Southern regionalists like Grant Wood, Thomas Benton and John McGrady, experimentalists like Stuart Davis and Federico Castellon...
...yearly budget of $75 to $315 by getting Illinois Wesleyan Uni versity as well as nearby Galesburg and Decatur to help out, the Bloomington Art Association invited top U.S. artists and galleries to send entries. Thirty-one bang-up paintings were submitted by such artists as Peter Hurd, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Fletcher Martin, John Steuart Curry, Aaron Boh-rod and Doris Lee. Bloomington's jury (headed by Chicago Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich) awarded a $100 prize to Raymond Breinin. Russian-born Artist Breinin's prize-winning picture was called The Night, depicted a somber, winged symbolic angel...
...together seven highly rated paintings by well-known American painters (Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Peter Blume, Bernard Karfiol, Julian Levi, Katherine Schmidt, Charles Sheeler, Niles Spencer) that had never found a buyer...