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...climb trees and ride on the palace lawn in his toy automobile and bicycle. Twenty young sons of peers come to play with him in shifts on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Last week four more noble playmates with special talents were chosen to match Akihito's varying moods: Yasuo Nishi, 7, accomplished pilot of baby automobiles; Yoshitska Torio, 7, very good at drawing; Takatoshi Kinoshita, 6, a singer and athlete; and Tsuyo Mishima, 7, brilliant toy soldier tactician...
...turned out to be the biggest show of its kind ever put on. From some 25,000 entries, judges chose 1,214 examples of painting, sculpture and the graphic arts. The roster of well-known names-Thomas Hart Benton, Eugene Speicher, Adolf Dehn, George Grosz, Edward Hopper, Charles Burchfield, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, William Zorach, Peggy Bacon, many another-is long, but incomplete. Some (Georgia O'Keefe, Jose de Creeít) did not submit anything. Some (Frederick Waugh, Robert Brackman) were turned down...
Last week was an active week for U. S. illustrators. At its club house on Manhattan's West 24th Street, the big happy family known as the Society of Illustrators neared the end of a month of sober lectures by technicians including non-illustrators Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Reginald Marsh. At the swank Park Lane its members reveled until dawn in gay costume at their annual "Bal Scramboree." And at the Grand Central Fifth Avenue Art Galleries the society put on its 37th annual exhibition, prefaced by a defensive program note. "These men are first-class craftsmen in a most...
...well-attended festivities celebrated -and almost obscured-an exhibition of eleven new paintings by one of the pets of the Manhattan-Woodstock crowd. The pet, bespectacled, Japanese-born Artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi, arrived late, grinning and amiable...
...Yasuo Kuniyoshi likes black & white touches so much that rare is the Kuniyoshi composition without a magazine, a corner of newspaper, a wrought-iron figure, a brunette en chemise. Another thing he likes is playing with webby threads of paint as a pastry cook plays with icing, to catch the light and give his canvases lustre. His great-eyed, meanderingly drawn figures often seem to exist in a mussy halo of phosphorescence, with vast spaces of mere paint around them. This highly mannered style does not satisfy Kuniyoshi, but it is the first one he has made fully and expressively...