Yasuo Kuniyoshi was an American and Japanese artist. Born in 1893 in Okayama, Japan, he immigrated to the United States in 1906. Kuniyoshi studied at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design and later ...

WASHINGTON, DC — In 1948, Yasuo Kuniyoshi was the first living artist to receive a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art and that was the last time his career was thoroughly explored ...

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, in his New York City Studio in 1940, is at work on the painting Upside Down Table and Mask, currently on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Max Yavno, photographer. Federal ...

Today’s comic book artists and graphic novelists owe a huge debt of gratitude to Hokusai, Hiroshige and other Japanese artists who, with wonderful formal and technical ingenuity, illustrated tales of ...

When budding artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi saw his fellow apprentice, Utagawa Kunisada, float down the river on a boat surrounded by beautiful women, Kuniyoshi resolved to work hard at their shared craft ...

With their bold colors, graphic inventiveness, and narrative sweep, the woodblock prints of Utagawa Kuniyoshi look as fresh as this morning’s manga. And not just to the unsophisticated Western eye: ...

The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art will explore the remarkable career of American modernist painter, photographer and printmaker Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889–1953) in the exhibition, “Artist Teacher ...

In 1906, 16-year-old Yasuo Kuniyoshi came to the U.S. alone from Japan. He made his name as a painter and at 40 he was showing his work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. But there was one thing ...

Forget eagles, anchors, Mom, portraits of Elvis, and promises to love “Winona Forever.” Decorative ink—exquisite in detail, comprehensive in design, and symbolic in concept—can be art. Skin Deep: ...

Witty and unpredictable: This is how Akira Watanabe, chief curator at the Ota Memorial Museum of Art, describes Utagawa Kuniyoshi, one of Japan’s most gifted 19th-century woodblock print artists. He ...