Amano Kunihiro (天野邦弘) (artist 1929 – 2020)

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Biography:

Born in 1929.

The British Museum curatorial files say: "Print artist. He was born in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, in northern Honshu, but his family moved to Tokyo early in his life. He was largely self-taught, though he did attend classes for three years at Musashino University of Art in an unofficial capacity in the post-war years. He first exhibited with the Japanese Print Association in 1955 and began a long and active international career at the Tokyo International Print Biennale in 1957 and Ljubljana in 1963. He has avoided figural subjects, but his works are based in the real world, and he has drawn much inspiration from fishing and the sea... He is typical of the first post-war generation of 'Sosaku Hanga' artists in his emphasis on clarity of form and printing, and has achieved a consistent elegance through a very individual palette of oil pigments which he developed during the 1960s. Many of his later works have used patterns reminiscent of the Japanese 'obi' (sash worn with the kimono). His most extensive series have been 'Distant Memory', 'Dark Change' and 'Imagination'."

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There are 11 prints by Kunihiro in the Art Institute of Chicago; 14 in the British Museum; 1 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; 2 in the National Museum of Asian Art; 2 in the Philadelphia Museum of Art; 1 in the Chazen Museum of Art; 1 at the Harvard Museums; 9 prints in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; 2 in the Portland Art Museum; 2 at the Mead Museum of Art at Amherst College; 1 at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum; 1 at the Smith College Museum of Art; 1 at the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS Amherst; 3 in the Cleveland Museum of Art; 11 at the Worcester Museum of Art; 2 in the Victoria and Albert Museum; 4 in the Gallery of New South Wales; 7 in the Minneapolis Institute of Art; 3 in the Honolulu Museum of Art; 3 in the Östasiatiska Museet, Stockholm.