Inscription: Signed and dated (upper right): Yasuo Kuniyoshi / 1938
the artist, New York (1938–d. 1953; his estate, 1953–54; sold on October 20, 1954, as "Accordion and Horse," through Downtown Gallery, New York to Gallagher); Edward J. Gallagher Jr., Baltimore (1954–56; his gift to MMA)
New York. Downtown Gallery. "Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Recent Paintings," January 24–February 11, 1939, no. 10 (as "Accordion and Horse").
New York World's Fair. "American Art Today," April 30–October 31, 1939, no. 279 (as "Accordion and Horse").
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. "One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture," January 28–March 3, 1940, no. 139 (as "Still Life with Accordion").
New York. Downtown Gallery. "Review of the Season," April 23–May 11, 1940, no catalogue?
Cleveland Museum of Art. "The 16th Exhibition of Contemporary American Oils," June 14–July 14, 1940, unnum. checklist (published in Ref. Cleveland Bulletin 1940, as "Still Life With Accordion and Horse").
New York. Downtown Gallery. "The Artist Looks at Music," January 7–February 1, 1941, no. 6 (as "Still Life with Accordion").
New York. Downtown Gallery. "Group exhibition," closed September 16, 1941, no catalogue?
Andover, Mass. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy. "Art Begins at Home: The Addison Gallery Gift Plan," September 17–October 11, 1943, unnumbered cat. (p. 27; as "Accordion and Horse," lent by the Downtown Gallery, N.Y.).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Yasuo Kuniyoshi Retrospective Exhibition," March 27–May 9, 1948, no. 41 (as "Accordion and Horse," lent by the Downtown Gallery).
New York. National Academy of Design. "Art Students League Diamond Jubilee Exhibition of Fine Art by Members and Associates," October 8–29, 1950, no. 201 (as "Still Life With Accordion").
Columbus, Oh. Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. "'Few Are Chosen': Paintings by 24 Living Americans," March 9–April 8, 1951 (p. 7; section chosen by Otto Spaeth, IV.1, as "Accordion and Horse," lent by Downtown Gallery, Inc.).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Columbia Bicentennial Exhibition," October 28, 1954–April 18, 1955, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Feininger, Kuhn, Kuniyoshi, Marin and Nordfeldt," February 24–April 29, 1956, no catalogue.
Woodstock, N.Y. Woodstock Artists Association. "Fifty Years of Woodstock Art: Hudson Champlain Celebration 1609–1959," August 1–20, 1959, no. 32.
Boston University Art Gallery. "Retrospective Exhibition: Yasuo Kuniyoshi," February 24–March 18, 1961, no. 26.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum's Collections," October 1–December 7, 1969, no catalogue.
New York. Kennedy Galleries. "The Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures by 100 Artists Associated with the Art Students League of New York," March 6–29, 1975, no. 54.
Staten Island Museum. "20th Century American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 9–28, 1978, brochure no. 8.
Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Edith C. Blum Art Institute. Milton and Sally Avery Arts Center. Bard College Center. "Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Artist as Photographer," September 3–October 13, 1983, unnumbered cat. (fig. 25; as "Accordion" in the checklist and "Accordion and Horse" in the text).
West Palm Beach, Fla. Norton Gallery and School of Art. "Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Artist as Photographer," October 29–December 4, 1983, unnumbered cat.
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum. "Yasuo Kuniyoshi," November 1–December 24, 1989, no. 63.
Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art. "Yasuo Kuniyoshi," January 5–February 12, 1990, no. 63.
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. "Yasuo Kuniyoshi," February 20–April 1, 1990, no. 63.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "14 Americans," July 16, 1990–January 2, 1991, no catalogue.
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. "New York: A Magnet for Artists," April 15–June 12, 1994, no. 104.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Still Life: 1915–1950," February 1, 1995–January 28, 1996, no catalogue.
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. "Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889–1953)," March 23–May 16, 2004, no. 58.
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama. "Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889–1953)," May 29–July 19, 2004, no. 58.
Nagoya. Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art. "Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889–1953)," August 6–September 26, 2004, no. 58.
E [dward]. A [lden]. J [ewell]. "Work by Three Artists: Recent Paintings by Kuniyoshi, O'Keeffe—A Memorial Show for Eugene Vail." New York Times (January 29, 1939), p. X9.
Elizabeth McCausland. "Living American Art." Parnassus 11 (May 1939), p. 21, calls it "Accordion and Horse".
Doris Brian. "U.S. Art at the Fair: Democratic Selection & Standardized Result." Art News 37 (May 6, 1939), p. 9.
Howard Devree. "A Reviewer's Notebook: Brief Comment on Some of the Recently Opened Shows—Old Masters and Moderns." New York Times (April 28, 1940), p. 126, calls it "Still-Life with Accordion".
"Exhibitors and Exhibits." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 27 (June 1940), p. 99.
Howard Devree. "A Reviewer's Notebook: Brief Comment on Some of the Recently Opened Group and One-Man Exhibitions." New York Times (September 7, 1941), p. 164.
Carlyle Burrows. "The Women Painters and Other Artists." New York Herald Tribune (January 12, 1941), p. E8.
Grace V. Kelly. "Art Museum's Resumption of Contemporary American Oils Exhibition Offers Treat." Cleveland Plain Dealer (June 16, 1942), p. 16-B.
Bartlett H. Hayes Jr. Art Begins at Home: The Addison Gallery Gift Plan. Exh. cat., Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy. Andover, Mass., 1943, pp. 20, 27, ill.
[unknown periodical] (January 18, 1944), ill. [clipping in Kuniyoshi papers, Archives of American Art, Series 8: Scrapbooks, Box 15, Folder 1, Scrapbook 2, 1934–1945, Frame 87; cited erroneously in Ref. Weber 1983 as "PM," January 18, 1944], reproduces a photograph of the still life objects for this painting arranged in the artist's studio.
Downtown Gallery. Paintings by Leading American Artists... New York, [1944], ill. n.p.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Yasuo Kuniyoshi. New York, 1945, unpaginated, ill., calls it "Still Life with Accordion".
Clement Greenberg. "Art." Nation 166 (May 15, 1948), p. 556, calls it "Accordion and Horse".
Robert M. Coates. "The Art Galleries: A Kuniyoshi Retrospective." New Yorker 24 (April 3, 1948), p. 72.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 85–86, ill.
Bruce Weber inYasuo Kuniyoshi: Artist as Photographer. Exh. cat., Edith C. Blum Art Institute. Milton and Sally Avery Arts Center. Bard College Center. Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., 1983, pp. 31, 47, fig. 25.
Shigemi Asano, ed. Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Okayama, 1991, pp. 120, 215, no. 216, ill. (color).
Stephen R. Edidin inNew York: A Magnet for Artists. Exh. cat., Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. Tokyo, 1994, pp. 149, 190, 210, no. 104, ill. (color).
Mika Kuraya inYasuo Kuniyoshi (1889–1953). Ed. Mika Kuraya and Masaaki Ozaki. Exh. cat., National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, 2004, pp. 195, 203, no. 58, ill. p. 91 (color).
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (American (born Japan), Okayama 1889–1953 New York)
1928
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