Word: yasuo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never before had Manhattan's Whitney Museum held a retrospective show of a living painter. To break its precedent, the museum chose a Japanese-American named Yasuo Kuniyoshi, who ranks among the top dozen U.S. artists. For the painter, the exhibition was a test as well as a tribute. Would his life work, spread out on the walls, seem worth the effort it represented? "I had a butterfly in my stomach," Kuniyoshi confessed last week, "just thinking about...
...need not have worried; the critics were "kind"; Kuniyoshi's artist friends, who call him "Yas" (for Yasuo), were jubilant. What gloom there was, and there was plenty, emanated from the pictures themselves...
...Stefan, of the House Appropriations Committee, wrestled with an esthetic problem. The State Department wanted money to strengthen U.S. cultural contacts with Europe and Latin America. "The committee never intended to have anything like that done with the taxpayer's money," said Stefan, looking with horror at Artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi's bit of exaggerated expressionism...
...send their favorite contemporary U.S. paintings to an exhibition entitled "Museums' Choice." Last week the results were on view. Artists best liked by the museum directors: the late great Marsden Hartley, Maine modern whose rough-cut, bright-colored canvases were scorned by museums 20 years ago; Japanese-American Yasuo Kuniyoshi, whose slick, complex workmanship is especially admired by fellow artists...
...milk-&-honey, saloon-style nude entitled Reverie (see cut). Miller's explanation for his choice of subject: "I have an appetite for form." Miller sates his appetite with a practiced brush, has taught many topflight U.S. artists to do likewise. Three other prizewinners in the show, Edward Hopper, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Edward Laning, once studied under him. So did Juryman Reginald Marsh...