The following biography is from the Lavenberg Collection. Uchima, the son of Japanese immigrants, grew up in Los Angeles. In 1940, in accordance with his fathers wishes, he went to Tokyo to study architecture at Waseda University. When Japan entered World War II one year later, Uchima was cut off from home. He soon gravitated to the study of painting, which he pursued under the tutelage of Japanese masters and later on his own. His paintings won awards at the Jiyo Bijutsu Art Association annual exhibitions in 1953 and 1954. Uchima began to experiment with printmaking in Japan in 1957, and his work was immediately successful with collectors in Japan and abroad. That same year he shared an exhibition at the Yoseido Gallery in Tokyo with the sculptor Masayuki Nagare and showed his woodcuts in the Tokyo International Print Triennials in 1957 and 1960. After twenty years of teaching, he was named professor emeritus in 1988. In 1967 he became an adjunct professor of printmaking at Columbia University. Besides having over forty one-person exhibitions in the United States and Japan, he has also been included in numerous group exhibitions worldwide. Uchima’s work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, and the National Gallery of Art, among many others. This print is signed and dated lower right, numbered 97/200 lower center, and titled lower left. It is in good condition with overall toning of the paper. It measures 18 7/8″ x 13 1/2″ (image size). Please see my other auctions for more fine paintings and prints. The item “Ansei Uchima 1970s Abstract Woodblock Joy Listed Japanese-American” is in sale since Monday, August 7, 2017. This item is in the category “Art\Art Prints”. The seller is “kgrinder” and is located in Holliston, Massachusetts. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Original/Reproduction: Original Print
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Signed: Signed
- Edition Type: Limited Edition
- Edition Size: 200
- Subject: Abstract
- Style: Abstract
- Size Type/Largest Dimension: Medium (Up to 30in.)
- Date of Creation: 1970-1989
- Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
- Material: Woodcut & Block
- Features: Framed
