Yasuhide Kobashi
American painter
Yasuhide Kobashi (古橋 矢須秀, Kobashi Yasuhide, 1931–2003) was a Japanese woodblock print artist, painter, sculptor and stage designer.[1] He was born in Kojima in Okayama Prefecture. His father was a ceramic artist and head of the Kyoto Industrial Craft Company. Kobashi learned printmaking from the sōsaku hanga (creative prints) master Unichi Hiratsuka (1895–1997). In 1955, Kobashi graduated from the Kyoto College of Crafts and Textiles, and in 1959, he moved to New York City. Nelson Rockefeller (governor of New York and later vice-president) was Kobashi's patron, and acquired one of the artist's sculptures for the New York State Executive Mansion in Albany.[2]
Kobashi is best known for his sōsaku hanga woodblock prints and his sculptures intended to be rearranged, which he called "self-constructions". The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, New York), the Weisman Art Museum (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville are among the public collections holding work by Kobashi.
Footnotes
References
- Baron, Virginia Olsen, The Seasons of Time; Tanka Poetry of Ancient Japan, Illustrated by Yasuhide Kobashi, New York, Dial Press, 1968.
- Eichman, Shawn and Sawako Takemura Chang, Self-construction: The Art of Kobashi Yasuhide, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Vol. 82, No. 6, Nov./Dec., 2010, pp. 6–7.
- Garfias, Robert and Lincoln Kirstein, Gagaku: The Music and Dances of the Japanese Imperial Household with calligraphy by Yasuhide Kobashi, New York, Theatre Arts Books, 1959.
- Kirstein, Lincoln, Kobashi. Recent Sculpture by Yasuhide Kobashi, New York, Allan Stone, 1961.
- Pratt Graphic Art Center, Eleven Prints by Eleven Printmakers, New York, Pratt Graphic Art Center, 1961.
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American woodblock printmakers
Printers
- Ada Gilmore (1883–1955)
- Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer (1873–1943)
- Mabel Hewit (1903–1984)
- Edna Boies Hopkins (1872–1937)
- Blanche Lazzell (1878–1956)
- Karl Knaths (1891–1971)
- Ethel Mars (1876–ca. 1956)
- Mildred McMillen (1884–1940)
- Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt (1878–1955)
- Maud Hunt Squire (1873–1954)
- Mary Tannahill (1863–1951)
- Anna Heyward Taylor (1879–1956)
- Ferol Sibley Warthen (1890–1986)
- Agnes Weinrich (1873–1946)
- William Zorach (1887–1966)
in Japan
- Charles W. Bartlett (1860–1940)
- Sarah Brayer (born 1957)
- Elizabeth Eaton Burton (1869–1937)
- Daniel Kelly (born 1947)
- Yasuhide Kobashi (1931–2003)
- Bertha Lum (1869–1954)
- Lilian May Miller (1895–1943)
- Hiroki Morinoue (born 1947)
- Chiura Obata (1885–1975)
- Masami Teraoka (born 1936)
- Howard Albert (1911–2004)
- Katrina Andry (born 1981)
- John E. Buck (born 1946)
- Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922)
- Janet Doub Erickson (born 1924)
- Charles Buckles Falls (1874–1960)
- Frances Gearhart (1869–1959)
- May Gearhart (1872–1951)
- Norma Bassett Hall (1889–1957)
- James D. Havens (1900–1960)
- Helen West Heller (1872–1955)
- Helen Hyde (1868-1919)
- Dennis Ichiyama (living person)
- Tom Killion (artist) (born 1953)
- Paul Landacre (1893–1963)
- J. J. Lankes (1884–1960)
- Holly Meade (1956–2013)
- Mabel Pugh (1891–1986)
- William S. Rice (1873–1963)
- Brian Shure (born 1952)
- Margaret Ely Webb (1877–1965)
- Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922)
- Chiura Obata (1885–1975)
- William S. Rice (1873–1963)
- Brian Shure (born 1952)
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