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...superb exhibition of drawings is divided into three parts. The largest consists of his portrait studies, ranging from the swift Oriental lines that concisely catch the profile of his friend, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, to a marvelously strong-featured portrait of Painter Marguerite Zorach, wife of Sculptor William Zorach, to an almost misty rendition of a pensive Van Wyck Brooks. Alongside these are his pictures in silverpoint-a painstaking technique that flourished in the 15th century and is rarely seen these days. With a silverpoint pen, Biddle works on paper treated with whiting to abrade the silver. He draws tiny line upon...
...located on East 51st Street) opened in 1926 with three artists that Stieglitz had turned over to her: John Marin, Charles Demuth, and Stieglitz' wife, Georgia O'Keeffe. In addition to the works of these three, Dealer Halpert also sells the paintings of the late Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Arthur Dove and Max Weber. Other artists on this formidable roster: Ben Shahn, Abraham Rattner, Charles Sheeler, Stuart Davis and Sculptor William Zorach-a generation so firmly established that it is hard to realize that they were barely known when the gallery first opened. Two of Mrs. Halpert's former...
...nude came into its own, only to disintegrate in the last 15 years under the probing abstractionist brushes of Willem de Kooning and others like him. The exhibition has a rare nude by Maurice Prendergast, a delicate bit of impressionism by Mary Cassatt, an angular Girl Wearing Bandanna by Yasuo Kuniyoshi. But even when the nude is at its most vigorous, its treatment varies dramatically from artist to artist. William Glackens' Nude with Apple is in standard studio pose-a composition of color rather than a slice of life. John Sloan, realist though he was, thought most painted nudes...
...enrolled at Manhattan's Art Students League and began studying under Morris Kantor and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. but after four years he still had not found himself. "Even then. I was seeking what Rimbaud seemed to have found: 'New forms that the inventions of the unknown demand.' " So. in 1953. he settled in Paris in a large studio on the Left Bank. There, his present abstract-expressionist style of painting began to emerge...
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...