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Title:Fish Head
Artist:Yasuo Kuniyoshi (American (born Japan), Okayama 1889–1953 New York)
Date:1952
Medium:Black ink and wash with scraping on paper
Dimensions:22 1/4 × 28 1/8 in. (56.5 × 71.5 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1953
Object Number:53.30
the artist, New York (1952–53; sold through the Downtown Gallery, New York to MMA)
Woodstock, N.Y. Woodstock Art Gallery. "Group exhibition," Summer 1952, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Water Colors, Drawings and Prints 1952: A National Competitive Exhibition," December 5, 1952–January 25, 1953, unnumbered cat. (p. 22; listed for sale).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Feininger, Kuhn, Kuniyoshi, Marin and Nordfeldt," February 24–April 29, 1956, no catalogue.
Boston University Art Gallery. "Retrospective Exhibition: Yasuo Kuniyoshi," February 24–March 18, 1961, no. 62.
Gainesville. University Gallery, University of Florida. "A Special Loan Retrospective Exhibition of Works by Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 1893–1953," February 7–March 30, 1969, no. 81.
Washington, D.C. National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution. "A Special Loan Retrospective Exhibition of Works by Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 1893–1953," May 9–June 29, 1969, no. 81.
University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin. "Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 1889–1953: A Retrospective Exhibition," February 9–March 23, 1975, unnumbered cat. (p. 68).
Madison. Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin. "Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 1889–1953: A Retrospective Exhibition," April 13–May 18, 1975, unnumbered cat.
Athens. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. "Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 1889–1953: A Retrospective Exhibition," June 8–July 13, 1975, unnumbered cat.
Tokyo. Bridgestone Museum. "Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 1889–1953: A Retrospective Exhibition," September 6–October 26, 1975, no. 73.
Nagoya. Prefectural Museum of Aichi. "Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 1889–1953: A Retrospective Exhibition," October 29–November 10, 1975, no. 73.
Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo. "Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 1889–1953: A Retrospective Exhibition," November 15–December 21, 1975, no. 73.
Windsor, Ontario. Art Gallery of Windsor. "Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 1889–1953: A Retrospective Exhibition," January 4–February 8, 1976, unnumbered cat.
Houston. Contemporary Arts Museum. "American Still Life, 1945–1983," September 20–November 20, 1983, unnumbered cat. (p. 76).
Buffalo, N.Y. Albright-Knox Art Gallery. "American Still Life, 1945–1983," December 10, 1983–January 15, 1984, unnumbered cat.
Columbus, Oh. Columbus Museum of Art. "American Still Life, 1945–1983," April 7–May 20, 1984, unnumbered cat.
Woodstock, N. Y. Woodstock Artists Association. "At Woodstock, Kuniyoshi," August 2–October 20, 2003, no. 38 (as "Fishhead").
Washington, D. C. Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery. "The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi," April 3–August 30, 2015, no. 64.
Howard Devree. "Leger Since 1905. Kuniyoshi's Late Work." New York Times (October 25, 1953), p. X9, in a review of an exhibition at the Downtown Gallery [see Ref. Downtown Gallery 1953], notes that this work is "represented by a drawing, the original being unobtainable".
Kuniyoshi: An Exhibition of Ink Paintings Dated 1952. Exh. brochure, Downtown Gallery. New York, 1953, no. 8, [This work was not shown in the exhibition. In an October 1, 1953 letter to Robert B. Hale, Associate Curator, MMA, Edith Halpert requests a reproduction of the work be sent for the installation since the loan was denied. Downtown Gallery records, 1824–1974, bulk 1926–1969. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Series 1 Correspondence, Reel 5505, Frame 766].
Martica Sawin. "Black Crows and Fish Kites in the Last Kuniyoshis." Art Digest 28 (October 15, 1953), p. 18.
Emily Genauer. "Works of 2 Americans at Museum: A Retrospective Painting Show." New York Herald Tribune (February 24, 1956), p. 13.
Emily Genauer. "Conviction vs. Conformity in Art Seen at Academy, Metropolitan." New York Herald Tribune (February 26, 1956), p. E12, calls it "Fish".
Robert M. Coates. "The Art Galleries: Five and One." New Yorker 32 (March 10, 1956), p. 119.
L[awrence]. C[ampbell]. "Reviews and Previews: Feininger, Kuhn, Kuniyoski [sic], Marin, Nordfeldt." Art News 55 (April 1956), p. 80, calls it "Fishhead".
Margaret Breuning in "Month in Review." Arts 30 (April 1956), p. 46, calls it "Fish".
Alexandra Munroe inYasuo Kuniyoshi. Exh. cat., Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum. [Tokyo], 1989, p. 42.
Shigemi Asano, ed. Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Okayama, 1991, pp. 166, 217, no. 352, ill.
Tom Wolf. "The Late Drawings of Yasuo Kuniyoshi." Drawing 13 (January–February 1992), pp. 101–2, fig. 5.
D. Dominick Lombardi. "Views of Nature Teeter From the Whimsical to the Ominous." New York Times (September 28, 2003), p. WE8.
Josephine Bloodgood. At Woodstock, Kuniyoshi. Exh. cat., Woodstock Artists Association. Woodstock, N.Y., 2003, p. 24, no. 38, ill. p. 48.
Tom Wolf inThe Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Exh. cat., Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery. Washington, D. C., 2015, pp. 78–79, colorpl. 64.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (American (born Japan), Okayama 1889–1953 New York)
1928
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