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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...
...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...
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...