Eagle
Suda Kunitarō 須田国太郎 Japanese
Not on view
Suda Kunitarō was an art historian and student of a uniquely Japanese type of modern, Western-style painting called yōga in Japanese. He originally studied drawing at Kansai Bijutsuin in his native Kyoto, but moved to Madrid to study oil painting in his late twenties. After four years traveling and studying paintings throughout Europe, Suda returned to Japan, where he spent the next two decades working as a teacher of the history of art and continuing to study oil painting before receiving recognition as an artist. He probably created this picture of an eagle, on paper using ink and mineral pigments, in this early period, around 1940. Animals were a favorite subject of Suda, among whose most memorable works in oils are several pictures of dogs and birds of prey.
