Lot 85: KAZUMI AMANO ABSTRACT WOODBLOCK

Kazumi Amano (1926-2001) embossed mid century abstract Japanese woodblock print, pencil signed and titled "Plan-Print A" 1973, 28/35. Purchased at the Gallery of Graphic Arts, 1601 York Ave, New York, NY. Founded in 1963, GoGAI is a well respected NYC gallery. n frame measures 23"x32"x1. Weight 10 pds. PROVENANCE: A Charleston SC Private Estate. Amano Kazumi (1927-2001) was born in Takaoka City, Tôyama Prefecture. He graduated from the Takaoka High School of Industrial Art in 1945, specializing in furniture design. In 1950, Amano studied briefly under Munakata Shiko. By 1953, he was exhibiting at the Nihon Hanga Kyokai (Japan Print Association), and then moved to Tokyo in 1955.In 1968, Amano relocated to the United States, first working as a teacher at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois and Marycrest College, Davenport, Iowa. In 1971, he moved his family to New York City, where he worked for 30 years.Amano won prizes at international print biennales in Lugano (1964), Tokyo (1966), and Krakow (1968). His works are represented in the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; the Toyama Modern Art Museum, Japan; the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Cincinnati Art Museum; the New York Public Library; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Miami Museum; the Seattle Art Museum; the Stockholm National Museum; the Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI; and the Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco.

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