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Style: Contemporary
Medium: Lithograph
Be Considerate (from Lessons in Love)
By Damien Hirst
Located in Bristol, GB
Photogravure and lithograph in colors on wove paper
Edition of 55
Signed on the front, numbered on the back
Condition upon request
Window-mounted and framed
Images of edition number...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Etching, Lithograph
K, Hockney's Alphabet, David Hockney
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 9.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Hockney's ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Arbus, Composition, Diane Arbus, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Diane Arbus
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Diane Arbus, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1979. Published by Unite...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
XIV Winter Olympics games by Cy Yozo Hamaguchi - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
XIV Winter Olympics games is a vintage poster realized by the artist Yozo Hamaguchi, in occasion of the XIV Winter Olympics games in Sarajevo, in 1984.
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
GARDEN ROMANCE Signed Lithograph, Black Couple Portrait, Lovers, Flower Garden
Located in Union City, NJ
GARDEN ROMANCE by the artist James Denmark is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) printed on archival Somerset paper using t...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso (After), 'La Colombe Bleu, 1961'
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: PABLO PICASSO (AFTER )
Title: La Colombe Bleu
Year: 1961
Published by: Combat Pour La Paix, Paris
Medium: Offset Lithograph
Printed by Mourlot
Edition: 200 plus EA
Size: 20 ...
Category
1950s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Walk On Water
Located in Manchester, GB
Werner Bronkhorst, Walk On Water, 2025
Giclée print on heavyweight 395gsm matte Canson Infinity PhotoArt ProCanvas, made with long-lasting Epson archival inks
43 x 33 cm (16.9 x 13...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
David Shrigley - It's A Long Day, When You Get Up Early
Located in London, GB
80 x 60 cm
Off-set lithography
Printed on 200g Munken Lynx paper
Narayana Press in Denmark
David Shrigley is a British visual artist known for his distinctive, whimsical, and often ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Ellsworth Kelly (after)- Composition, 1958 Lithograph From DLM
By (after) Ellsworth Kelly
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly (after)
Title: Composition (Axsom No. I-G)
Year: 1964
Dimensions: 15in. by 11in.
Mount Board Size Inches: 20 x 16 inches
Mount Board Color: White/Black
Prin...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Unitled 11
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Framed in an ornate wood frame with a front profile of 1 1/2 inches and a side profile of 1 inch, this piece is elegantly seated behind a 4-inch mat. This is Edition #669/900, publis...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
V, Hockney's Alphabet, David Hockney
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 9.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Hockney's ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
La Place de la Concorde
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is a part of my private collection from the early 1970's. It is artist pencil signed in the lower right corner, and numbered in the lower left.
Published : Guild de l...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Oil, Lithograph
Philippines
Located in Manchester, GB
Guy Gee, Philippines
Each artwork by Gee has been digitally reimagined from an original postage stamp. Printed on 350gsm G. F. Smith card, cut out and finished by hand, the artwork ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
JUMPIN' & JIVIN' Signed Lithograph, Jazz Club, Band Musicians, Color Collage
Located in Union City, NJ
JUMPIN & JIVIN' is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) by the American artist James Denmark printed on archival Somerset pap...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Walled Off Hotel Flower Thrower Wall Sculpture
By Banksy
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Super iconic and instantly recognizable Flower Thrower image featured on this Banksy Walled Off Hotel wall sculpture.
This image was originally painted by Banksy in the West Bank are...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Rene Bazaine 'Composition VIII' 1968- Lithograph Vintage
By Jean Bazaine
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This lithograph page titled Composition VIII is part of the Derrière le Miroir (DLM) No. 170 series, showcasing the work of the French artist René Bazaine. Known for his contribution...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Bob Dylan, "The Drawn Blank Series, " rare complete box set with two lithographs
By Bob Dylan
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan: The Drawn Blank Series, Drawings and Paintings
Book Size: 13.5 x 10 inches
November 2013
Included Lithographs on Somerset Satin:
1. Woman on a Bed 12 x 9 inche...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Calder 'Spirales' Lithograph, 1974
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This first release lithograph titled Spirales by Alexander Calder is a captivating piece of art that showcases Calder's signature style of bold, swirling forms. The lithograph is pla...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso (After), 'La Ronde de la Jeunesse', Lithograph, 1961
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: PABLO PICASSO (AFTER )
Title: 'La Ronde de la Jeunesse (The Youth Circle)'
Year: 1961
Published by: Combat Pour La Paix, Paris
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper
Printed by Mourlot
Edition: 200 plus EA
Size: 26 x 20 inches
Signed and numbered in pencil by the master
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY INCLUDED
ARTWORK IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION
Through the use of crisp vibrant colors and the fluid use of line, Picasso creates a sense of optimistic energy that is focused around the dove of peace in Pablo Picasso La Ronde de la Jeunesse...
Category
1950s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso (After), 'Vive le Paix (Long Live Peace) Lithograph, 1954
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: PABLO PICASSO (AFTER )
Title: Vive le Paix (Long Live Peace)
Year: 1954
Published by: Combat Pour La Paix, Paris
Medium: Lithograph on Lana paper (Blind stamp JPG attached)
P...
Category
1950s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
THE FAMILY Signed Lithograph, Black Family Portrait, Collage, African American
Located in Union City, NJ
THE FAMILY is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the African American artist James Denmark, printed using hand lithography on Arches paper 100% acid free. Rich, vi...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Rene Bazaine 'Composition VI' 1968- Lithograph Vintage
By Jean Bazaine
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This lithograph page by René Bazaine from Derrière le Miroir No. 170 features abstract forms inspired by natural elements like water and foliage. The artwork's rich colors and harmon...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
C, Hockney's Alphabet, David Hockney
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 9.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Hockney's ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
SHARING THE CHORES Signed Lithograph, Farm Women Chickens Geechee Gullah Culture
Located in Union City, NJ
SHARING THE CHORES is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the acclaimed Charleston SC artist JONATHAN GREEN printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso (After), 'La Colombe de L'avenir, 1962'
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: PABLO PICASSO (AFTER )
Title: La Colombe de L'avenir
Year: 1962
Published by: Combat Pour La Paix, Paris
Medium: Lithograph on Rives BFK paper
Printed by Mourlot
Edition: 200...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso ( 1881 – 1973 ) La Grande Maternité – hand-signed lithograph 1963
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
After Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
La Grande Maternité
1963
pencil signed and annotated 'E.A.' (aside from the edition of 200), with margins
Editions Combat de la Paix, Paris
P...
Category
1950s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics - by Cy Twombly - 1984
By Cy Twombly
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled, Sarayevo Winter Olympic Games 1984, is an etching with aquatint and lithograph in colors realized by Cy Twombly on the occasion of the Winter Olympics Games 1984 in Sarajev...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph
Supercomb (Exhibition Poster)
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Supercomb created by Jean Michel Basquiat for his exhibition at Yvon Lambert, Paris in 1988.
Super vibrant colors with many interesting details of images and text combined in Basquia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
“Straight Wharf Nantucket”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original off set lithograph in black and white with hand colored tinting by the artist. Artist signed, titled and numbered by the artist 47/250. Condition is excellent. Under glass...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
Hunt Slonem, White Bunnies I, Bunnies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: White Bunnies I
Series: Bunnies
Date: 2017
Medium: Lithograph on Paper
Unframed Dimensions: 24" x 16"
Framed Dimensions: 29" x 22" x 1.25"
Signatur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number
By Toko Shinoda
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number
Shinoda's works have been collected by public galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum (all in New York City), the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the British Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Singapore Art Museum, the National Museum of Singapore, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut.
New York Times Obituary, March 3, 2021 by Margalit Fox, Alex Traub contributed reporting.
Toko Shinoda, one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose work married the ancient serenity of calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism, died on Monday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 107.
Her death was announced by her gallerist in the United States.
A painter and printmaker, Ms. Shinoda attained international renown at midcentury and remained sought after by major museums and galleries worldwide for more than five decades.
Her work has been exhibited at, among other places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the British Museum; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Private collectors include the Japanese imperial family.
Writing about a 1998 exhibition of Ms. Shinoda’s work at a London gallery, the British newspaper The Independent called it “elegant, minimal and very, very composed,” adding, “Her roots as a calligrapher are clear, as are her connections with American art of the 1950s, but she is quite obviously a major artist in her own right.”
As a painter, Ms. Shinoda worked primarily in sumi ink, a solid form of ink, made from soot pressed into sticks, that has been used in Asia for centuries.
Rubbed on a wet stone to release their pigment, the sticks yield a subtle ink that, because it is quickly imbibed by paper, is strikingly ephemeral. The sumi artist must make each brush stroke with all due deliberation, as the nature of the medium precludes the possibility of reworking even a single line.
“The color of the ink which is produced by this method is a very delicate one,” Ms. Shinoda told The Business Times of Singapore in 2014. “It is thus necessary to finish one’s work very quickly. So the composition must be determined in my mind before I pick up the brush. Then, as they say, the painting just falls off the brush.”
Ms. Shinoda painted almost entirely in gradations of black, with occasional sepias and filmy blues. The ink sticks she used had been made for the great sumi artists of the past, some as long as 500 years ago.
Her line — fluid, elegant, impeccably placed — owed much to calligraphy. She had been rigorously trained in that discipline from the time she was a child, but she had begun to push against its confines when she was still very young.
Deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived in New York in the late 1950s, Ms. Shinoda shunned representation.
“If I have a definite idea, why paint it?,” she asked in an interview with United Press International in 1980. “It’s already understood and accepted. A stand of bamboo is more beautiful than a painting could be. Mount Fuji is more striking than any possible imitation.”
Spare and quietly powerful, making abundant use of white space, Ms. Shinoda’s paintings are done on traditional Chinese and Japanese papers, or on backgrounds of gold, silver or platinum leaf.
Often asymmetrical, they can overlay a stark geometric shape with the barest calligraphic strokes. The combined effect appears to catch and hold something evanescent — “as elusive as the memory of a pleasant scent or the movement of wind,” as she said in a 1996 interview.
Ms. Shinoda’s work also included lithographs; three-dimensional pieces of wood and other materials; and murals in public spaces, including a series made for the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo.
The fifth of seven children of a prosperous family, Ms. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913, in Dalian, in Manchuria, where her father, Raijiro, managed a tobacco plant. Her mother, Joko, was a homemaker. The family returned to Japan when she was a baby, settling in Gifu, midway between Kyoto and Tokyo.
One of her father’s uncles, a sculptor and calligrapher, had been an official seal carver to the Meiji emperor. He conveyed his love of art and poetry to Toko’s father, who in turn passed it to Toko.
“My upbringing was a very traditional one, with relatives living with my parents,” she said in the U.P.I. interview. “In a scholarly atmosphere, I grew up knowing I wanted to make these things, to be an artist.”
She began studying calligraphy at 6, learning, hour by hour, impeccable mastery over line. But by the time she was a teenager, she had begun to seek an artistic outlet that she felt calligraphy, with its centuries-old conventions, could not afford.
“I got tired of it and decided to try my own style,” Ms. Shinoda told Time magazine in 1983. “My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.”
Moving to Tokyo as a young adult, Ms. Shinoda became celebrated throughout Japan as one of the country’s finest living calligraphers, at the time a signal honor for a woman. She had her first solo show in 1940, at a Tokyo gallery.
During World War II, when she forsook the city for the countryside near Mount Fuji, she earned her living as a calligrapher, but by the mid-1940s she had started experimenting with abstraction. In 1954 she began to achieve renown outside Japan with her inclusion in an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy at MoMA.
In 1956, she traveled to New York. At the time, unmarried Japanese women could obtain only three-month visas for travel abroad, but through zealous renewals, Ms. Shinoda managed to remain for two years.
She met many of the titans of Abstract Expressionism there, and she became captivated by their work.
“When I was in New York in the ’50s, I was often included in activities with those artists, people like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Motherwell and so forth,” she said in a 1998 interview with The Business Times. “They were very generous people, and I was often invited to visit their studios, where we would share ideas and opinions on our work. It was a great experience being together with people who shared common feelings.”
During this period, Ms. Shinoda’s work was sold in the United States by Betty Parsons, the New York dealer who represented Pollock, Rothko and many of their contemporaries.
Returning to Japan, Ms. Shinoda began to fuse calligraphy and the Expressionist aesthetic in earnest. The result was, in the words of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1997, “an art of elegant simplicity and high drama.”
Among Ms. Shinoda’s many honors, she was depicted, in 2016, on a Japanese postage stamp. She is the only Japanese artist to be so honored during her lifetime.
No immediate family members survive.
When she was quite young and determined to pursue a life making art, Ms. Shinoda made the decision to forgo the path that seemed foreordained for women of her generation.
“I never married and have no children,” she told The Japan Times in 2017. “And I suppose that it sounds strange to think that my paintings are in place of them — of course they are not the same thing at all. But I do say, when paintings that I have made years ago are brought back into my consciousness, it seems like an old friend, or even a part of me, has come back to see me.”
Works of a Woman's Hand
Toko Shinoda bases new abstractions on ancient calligraphy
Down a winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. into a chunky white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow.
Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, on e of Japans foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting.
She looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue and white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted). Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meji print.
Her surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray.
It all feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda’s opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Darien, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says,”People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted” But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers,”I think that if my mother had remained in Japan, she would have been an ordinary Japanese housewife. Going to Manchuria, she was able to assert her own personality, and that left its mark on me.”
Evidently so. She wears her obi low on the hips, masculine style. The Porcelain aloofness she displays in photographs shatters in person. Her speech is forceful, her expression animated and her laugh both throaty and infectious. The hand she brings to her mouth to cover her amusement (a traditional female gesture of modesty) does not stand a chance.
Her father also made a strong impression on the fifth of his seven children:”He came from a very old family, and he was quite strict in some ways and quite liberal in others.” He owned one of the first three bicycles ever imported to Japan and tinkered with it constantly He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity.
“I was forced to study from age six on to learn calligraphy,” Shinoda says, The young girl dutifully memorized and copied the accepted models. In one sense, her father had pushed her in a promising direction, one of the few professional fields in Japan open to females. Included among the ancient terms that had evolved around calligraphy was onnade, or woman's writing.
Heresy lay ahead. By the time she was 15, she had already been through nine years of intensive discipline, “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style. My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.”
She produces a brush and a piece of paper to demonstrate the nature of her rebellion. “This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river,” she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes. “But I wanted to use more than three lines to show the force of the river.” Her brush flows across the white page, leaving a recognizable river behind, also flowing.” The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.”
Her conviction grew that ink could convey the ineffable, the feeling, "as she says, of wind blowing softly.” Another demonstration. She goes to the sliding wooden door of an anteroom and disappears in back of it; the only trace of her is a triangular swatch of the right sleeve of her kimono, which she has arranged for that purpose. A realization dawns. The task of this artist is to paint that three sided pattern so that the invisible woman attached to it will be manifest to all viewers.
Gen, painted especially for TIME, shows Shinoda’s theory in practice. She calls the work “my conception of Japan in visual terms.” A dark swath at the left, punctuated by red, stands for history. In the center sits a Chinese character gen, which means in the present or actuality. A blank pattern at the right suggests an unknown future.
Once out of school, Shinoda struck off on a path significantly at odds with her culture. She recognized marriage for what it could mean to her career (“a restriction”) and decided against it. There was a living to be earned by doing traditional calligraphy:she used her free time to paint her variations. In 1940 a Tokyo gallery exhibited her work. (Fourteen years would pass before she got a second show.)War came, and bad times for nearly everyone, including the aspiring artist , who retreated to a rural area near Mount Fuji and traded her kimonos for eggs.
In 1954 Shinoda’s work was included in a group exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Two years later, she overcame bureaucratic obstacles to visit the U.S.. Unmarried Japanese women are allowed visas for only three months, patiently applying for two-month extensions, one at a time, Shinoda managed to travel the country for two years. She pulls out a scrapbook from this period. Leafing through it, she suddenly raises a hand and touches her cheek:”How young I looked!” An inspection is called for. The woman in the grainy, yellowing newspaper photograph could easily be the on e sitting in this room. Told this, she nods and smiles. No translation necessary.
Her sojourn in the U.S. proved to be crucial in the recognition and development of Shinoda’s art. Celebrities such as actor Charles Laughton and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet bought her paintings and spread the good word. She also saw the works of the abstract expressionists, then the rage of the New York City art world, and realized that these Western artists, coming out of an utterly different tradition, were struggling toward the same goal that had obsessed her. Once she was back home, her work slowly made her famous.
Although Shinoda has used many materials (fabric, stainless steel, ceramics, cement), brush and ink remain her principal means of expression. She had said, “As long as I am devoted to the creation of new forms, I can draw even with muddy water.” Fortunately, she does not have to. She points with evident pride to her ink stone, a velvety black slab of rock, with an indented basin, that is roughly a foot across and two feet long. It is more than 300 years old. Every working morning, Shinoda pours about a third of a pint of water into it, then selects an ink stick from her extensive collection, some dating back to China’s Ming dynasty. Pressing stick against stone, she begins rubbing. Slowly, the dried ink dissolves in the water and becomes ready for the brush. So two batches of sumi (India ink) are exactly alike; something old, something new. She uses color sparingly. Her clear preference is black and all its gradations. “In some paintings, sumi expresses blue better than blue.”
It is time to go downstairs to the living quarters. A niece, divorced and her daughter,10,stay here with Shinoda; the artist who felt forced to renounce family and domesticity at the outset of her career seems welcome to it now. Sake is offered, poured into small cedar boxes and happily accepted. Hold carefully. Drink from a corner. Ambrosial. And just right for the surroundings and the hostess. A conservative renegade; a liberal traditionalist; a woman steeped in the male-dominated conventions that she consistently opposed. Her trail blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso’s.
When she says goodbye, she bows. --by Paul Gray...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Calder, 'Skybird' from Flying Colors suite 1974-1975
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Title: "Skybird" (from the Braniff International Airways Flying Colors Collection)
Year: 1974-75
Medium: Lithographs on Arches paper
Size: 20 x 2...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Arbus, Composition, Diane Arbus, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Diane Arbus
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Diane Arbus, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1979. Published by Unite...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Lydia Lunch at the Russian Baths, 268 East 10th Street, 1985 offset litho poster
By Nan Goldin
Located in New York, NY
Nan Goldin
Lydia Lunch at the Russian Baths, 268 East 10th Street, 1985 poster, 2018
Offset lithograph poster (unsigned, unnumbered and unframed)
17 × 22 inches
Published by The Kitchen in 2018, on the occasion of their Gala honoring Nan Goldin and Lydia Lunch
Provenance
Acquired from The Kitchen on the occasion of their 2018 Gala
Also accompanied by Certificate of Guarantee from Alpha 137 Gallery
Excerpt from The Kitchen description of this event:
“During the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, icons Goldin and Lunch were vanguards of post-punk New York. Both women have presented their work at The Kitchen throughout the years, consistently returning to premiere new works that went on to exemplify their careers. Goldin’s portraiture of her close-knit circle of friends in New York became emblematic of her generation’s grappling with the social issues of the time, from the epidemic of drug addiction to the AIDS crisis. Lunch is revered as a radical progenitor of No Wave music, fronting the influential Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and collaborating with acts like JG Thirlwell, Birthday Party, and Sonic Youth. Lunch has a broad artistic practice, also working in film, visual art, writing, and spoken-word. Goldin and Lunch have also collaborated on numerous occasions. For instance, the cover of Lunch’s 1995 album Drowning In Limbo featured a portrait of her taken by Goldin. Lunch also posed for Goldin’s project for The Village Voice’s short-lived fashion insert Vue in 1985. Shot as part of an editorial called “Masculine/Feminine,” the image of a reclining Lunch at Russian baths in the East Village was ultimately not included in the final layout, and we were pleased to be present the image for the first time as a limited-edition print in support of The Kitchen.
At The Kitchen in November 1980, Goldin presented slides as part of Dubbed in Glamour, a three-day event of “spectacle and extravagance” organized by Edit deAk that featured primarily women artists. Introduced by Cookie Mueller, who served as the master of ceremonies, these slides were an early version of Goldin’s landmark work The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, which continued to take shape during the next few years. The Bush Tetras, who performed at this year’s gala, also participated in Dubbed in Glamour.
In 1994, Goldin returned to The Kitchen to premiere three slideshows for the first time in the United States as part of the winter lecture series curated by Ira Silverberg. The first slideshow developed from her 1992 award-winning book The Other Side, which lauded the drag queens she lived with and among in New York. During the ‘70s, when Goldin first moved to the city, the people she lived with became not just her subjects, but also her chosen family. The second slideshow was a series of intimate self-portraits. The evening concluded with a collection of Goldin’s images that traced her relationships to her close friends Alf Bold, Gilles Dusein, and Cookie Mueller and celebrated the joy of their lives and the pain of their deaths from AIDS.
In 1985, Lunch first appeared at The Kitchen as part of the two-night screening series of experimental short films, Super 8 Motel. She and Richard Kern...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
LADIES WITH PARROTS Signed Lithograph, Asian Women, Birds, Fans, Kimonos
By Walasse Ting
Located in Union City, NJ
LADIES WITH PARROTS is an original hand drawn lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free by the renowned Chinese born...
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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Pacific Beach Horizon, Nautical Triptych Cyanotype, White and Blue Seascape, Zen
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of water, forests, and skies. These...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph, Rag Paper
GARDEN ROMANCE Signed Lithograph, Black Couple, Collage Portrait Lovers, Flowers
Located in Union City, NJ
GARDEN ROMANCE by the artist James Denmark is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) printed on archival Somerset paper using traditional hand lithography techniques. GARDEN ROMANCE is one of Denmark's expressive, colorful collage compositions of everyday African American life - a lovely flower garden scene featuring a romantic black couple, the woman seated amid the blossoming plants wearing a green and yellow paisley print dress and head wrap; her standing male companion with flower in hand, dressed in blue denim jeans, and pastel color patchwork print shirt. Vivid coloration, watercolor patterns, and collage effect textures captivate the eye with visual variety in a striking palette of blues, greens, white, red, orange, magenta, touches of yellow, lavender and dark black - a fine example of the intricacies of hand lithography!
Print size - 32 x 21.25 in., archival framing, double mat, excellent condition, pencil signed and numbered - Certificate of Authenticity provided
1 / 15 H.C. by James Denmark, publisher's chop embossed lower left corner
Edition size - 250, plus proofs
Year published - 1996
Printer - JK Fine Art Editions Co. NJ
Publisher - Mojo Portfolio...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Ostrich and the Woman ~ L'autruche et la femme 1980 Signed Limited Edition
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Philippe Noyer
Title: L'autruche et la femme ~ The ostrich and the woman
Year: 1980
Print: Lithograph 46'' x 31.5'' inches
Edition: Signed in pencil and numbered 9/325
Date:...
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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
L'Astronome - Lithograph - 1900-1944 - Signed
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
Color lithograph after the watercolor illustrations by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from his beloved masterpiece "The Little Prince".
This lithograph was printed and published in 2009 ...
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Early 20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Calder, 'Convection' from Flying Colors suite 1974-1975
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Title: "Convection" (from the Braniff International Airways Flying Colors Collection)
Year: 1974-75
Medium: Lithographs on Arches paper
Size: 20 ...
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1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Osage Sheep State II
Located in Kansas City, MO
Theodore Waddell
Osage Sheep State II
Year: 1994
Color Lithograph
Edition: 30
Papers: Arches Cover, Black
Paper Size: 22.5 x 30 inches
Image Size: Same
Signed and numbered by hand
CO...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
LINKS TOGETHER Original Lithograph 1996 Commemorative Art Poster, Black Women
Located in Union City, NJ
LINKS TOGETHER is a very unique, and rarely seen original fine art lithograph poster printed in five colors using traditional hand lithography techniques (not a photo reproduction or...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait de Nadia - Lithograph after Fernand Léger - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized after Fernand Léger in 1959, on Moulin Richard de Bas paper.
Monogrammed in the plate.
It belongs to the suite "Contrastes", printed by Daniel Jacomet and publi...
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1950s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Arbus, Composition, Diane Arbus, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Diane Arbus
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Diane Arbus, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1979. Published by Unite...
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1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Human Behaviour and Animals and Existentialism full set of 8 prints
Located in Manchester, GB
David Shrigley, Human Behaviour and Animals and Existentialism, 2022
27 3/5 × 19 7/10 in (70 × 50 cm)
A complete suite of eight lithograph posters on 200gsm Munken Lynx wove, from ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
BACKYARD Signed Lithograph, Black Couple, African American Heritage, Quilts
Located in Union City, NJ
BACKYARD by the artist James Denmark is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph printed on archival Somerset paper, 100% acid free using traditional hand lithography techniques. BACKYARD is one of Denmark's colorful collage compositions of everyday African American life - a soulful Southern country folk scene featuring a standing woman wearing a red orange skirt, multicolored floral print top, and dark indigo print head wrap; her male companion dressed in blue denim jeans, dark indigo print shirt and denim hat sitting in the backyard as the patchwork quilts flutter on the clothesline. Vivid coloration and textures captivate the eye with variety - deep violet, reds, fiery orange, touches of yellow, dark black and shades of blue - a very strong impression and fine example of hand lithography!
Print size - 38 x 23 inches, unframed, mint condition, pencil signed and numbered by James Denmark
Edition size - 250, plus proofs
Year published - 1996
Printer - J K Fine Art Editions Co., NJ
Publisher - Mojo...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Menton by Constantin 1960 Vintage French TRAVEL POSTER by Terechkovitch
Located in London, GB
Menton by Constantin 1960 vintage French TRAVEL POSTER
By Terechkovitch
Georges Terechkovitch (1908-1993) was a French artist of Russi...
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1960s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Linen, Lithograph
The End of the Game Rare 1970s ICP print (Hand Signed, inscribed by Peter Beard)
By Peter Beard
Located in New York, NY
Peter Beard
The End of the Game (Hand Signed by Peter Beard), 1977
Offset Lithograph Poster (hand signed by Peter Beard and inscribed with a heart)
Han...
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1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Dusk, Hopi Arizona landscape lithograph contemporary by Dan Namingha purple pink
By Dan Namingha
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Dusk, Hopi Arizona landscape lithograph contemporary by Dan Namingha purple pink
hand pulled limited edition lithograph signed and numbered by the a...
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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
THE LANTERN Hand Signed Lithograph, Collage Portrait, African American Heritage
Located in Union City, NJ
THE LANTERN is an original, handmade limited edition lithograph printed from hand drawn lithography plates in 13 colors using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Somerse...
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1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Lemon Squash
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint
Edition 26 of 100
61 x 53.5 cm (24 x 21 in)
Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the front
Artwork in excellent condition. Minor imperfections may appear due to the age ...
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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Sakura and Panda
Located in Bristol, GB
Offset print with silver and high gloss varnishing
Edition of 300
Signed and numbered on the front
Excellent, with a soft crease on the left edge
Our mission is to connect art colle...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
SCHOMBURG LIBRARY 1986 Lithograph, African American History, Black Culture
Located in Union City, NJ
SCHOMBURG LIBRARY is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Arches printmaking paper...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Saul Steinberg, 'Taxi' Signed & numbered Lithograph 1977
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Saul Steinberg
Title: Taxi - Galerie Maeght
Year: 1977
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: XX/150
Size: 23 in. x 31 in. (78.74 cm x 58.42 cm)
Conditio...
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1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled
By Toko Shinoda
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled
Shinoda's works have been collected by public galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum (all in New York City), the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the British Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Singapore Art Museum, the National Museum of Singapore, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut.
New York Times Obituary, March 3, 2021 by Margalit Fox, Alex Traub contributed reporting.
Toko Shinoda, one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose work married the ancient serenity of calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism, died on Monday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 107.
Her death was announced by her gallerist in the United States.
A painter and printmaker, Ms. Shinoda attained international renown at midcentury and remained sought after by major museums and galleries worldwide for more than five decades.
Her work has been exhibited at, among other places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the British Museum; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Private collectors include the Japanese imperial family.
Writing about a 1998 exhibition of Ms. Shinoda’s work at a London gallery, the British newspaper The Independent called it “elegant, minimal and very, very composed,” adding, “Her roots as a calligrapher are clear, as are her connections with American art of the 1950s, but she is quite obviously a major artist in her own right.”
As a painter, Ms. Shinoda worked primarily in sumi ink, a solid form of ink, made from soot pressed into sticks, that has been used in Asia for centuries.
Rubbed on a wet stone to release their pigment, the sticks yield a subtle ink that, because it is quickly imbibed by paper, is strikingly ephemeral. The sumi artist must make each brush stroke with all due deliberation, as the nature of the medium precludes the possibility of reworking even a single line.
“The color of the ink which is produced by this method is a very delicate one,” Ms. Shinoda told The Business Times of Singapore in 2014. “It is thus necessary to finish one’s work very quickly. So the composition must be determined in my mind before I pick up the brush. Then, as they say, the painting just falls off the brush.”
Ms. Shinoda painted almost entirely in gradations of black, with occasional sepias and filmy blues. The ink sticks she used had been made for the great sumi artists of the past, some as long as 500 years ago.
Her line — fluid, elegant, impeccably placed — owed much to calligraphy. She had been rigorously trained in that discipline from the time she was a child, but she had begun to push against its confines when she was still very young.
Deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived in New York in the late 1950s, Ms. Shinoda shunned representation.
“If I have a definite idea, why paint it?,” she asked in an interview with United Press International in 1980. “It’s already understood and accepted. A stand of bamboo is more beautiful than a painting could be. Mount Fuji is more striking than any possible imitation.”
Spare and quietly powerful, making abundant use of white space, Ms. Shinoda’s paintings are done on traditional Chinese and Japanese papers, or on backgrounds of gold, silver or platinum leaf.
Often asymmetrical, they can overlay a stark geometric shape with the barest calligraphic strokes. The combined effect appears to catch and hold something evanescent — “as elusive as the memory of a pleasant scent or the movement of wind,” as she said in a 1996 interview.
Ms. Shinoda’s work also included lithographs; three-dimensional pieces of wood and other materials; and murals in public spaces, including a series made for the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo.
The fifth of seven children of a prosperous family, Ms. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913, in Dalian, in Manchuria, where her father, Raijiro, managed a tobacco plant. Her mother, Joko, was a homemaker. The family returned to Japan when she was a baby, settling in Gifu, midway between Kyoto and Tokyo.
One of her father’s uncles, a sculptor and calligrapher, had been an official seal carver to the Meiji emperor. He conveyed his love of art and poetry to Toko’s father, who in turn passed it to Toko.
“My upbringing was a very traditional one, with relatives living with my parents,” she said in the U.P.I. interview. “In a scholarly atmosphere, I grew up knowing I wanted to make these things, to be an artist.”
She began studying calligraphy at 6, learning, hour by hour, impeccable mastery over line. But by the time she was a teenager, she had begun to seek an artistic outlet that she felt calligraphy, with its centuries-old conventions, could not afford.
“I got tired of it and decided to try my own style,” Ms. Shinoda told Time magazine in 1983. “My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.”
Moving to Tokyo as a young adult, Ms. Shinoda became celebrated throughout Japan as one of the country’s finest living calligraphers, at the time a signal honor for a woman. She had her first solo show in 1940, at a Tokyo gallery.
During World War II, when she forsook the city for the countryside near Mount Fuji, she earned her living as a calligrapher, but by the mid-1940s she had started experimenting with abstraction. In 1954 she began to achieve renown outside Japan with her inclusion in an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy at MoMA.
In 1956, she traveled to New York. At the time, unmarried Japanese women could obtain only three-month visas for travel abroad, but through zealous renewals, Ms. Shinoda managed to remain for two years.
She met many of the titans of Abstract Expressionism there, and she became captivated by their work.
“When I was in New York in the ’50s, I was often included in activities with those artists, people like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Motherwell and so forth,” she said in a 1998 interview with The Business Times. “They were very generous people, and I was often invited to visit their studios, where we would share ideas and opinions on our work. It was a great experience being together with people who shared common feelings.”
During this period, Ms. Shinoda’s work was sold in the United States by Betty Parsons, the New York dealer who represented Pollock, Rothko and many of their contemporaries.
Returning to Japan, Ms. Shinoda began to fuse calligraphy and the Expressionist aesthetic in earnest. The result was, in the words of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1997, “an art of elegant simplicity and high drama.”
Among Ms. Shinoda’s many honors, she was depicted, in 2016, on a Japanese postage stamp. She is the only Japanese artist to be so honored during her lifetime.
No immediate family members survive.
When she was quite young and determined to pursue a life making art, Ms. Shinoda made the decision to forgo the path that seemed foreordained for women of her generation.
“I never married and have no children,” she told The Japan Times in 2017. “And I suppose that it sounds strange to think that my paintings are in place of them — of course they are not the same thing at all. But I do say, when paintings that I have made years ago are brought back into my consciousness, it seems like an old friend, or even a part of me, has come back to see me.”
Works of a Woman's Hand
Toko Shinoda bases new abstractions on ancient calligraphy
Down a winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. into a chunky white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow.
Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, on e of Japans foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting.
She looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue and white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted). Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meji print.
Her surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray.
It all feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda’s opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Darien, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says,”People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted” But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers,”I think that if my mother had remained in Japan, she would have been an ordinary Japanese housewife. Going to Manchuria, she was able to assert her own personality, and that left its mark on me.”
Evidently so. She wears her obi low on the hips, masculine style. The Porcelain aloofness she displays in photographs shatters in person. Her speech is forceful, her expression animated and her laugh both throaty and infectious. The hand she brings to her mouth to cover her amusement (a traditional female gesture of modesty) does not stand a chance.
Her father also made a strong impression on the fifth of his seven children:”He came from a very old family, and he was quite strict in some ways and quite liberal in others.” He owned one of the first three bicycles ever imported to Japan and tinkered with it constantly He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity.
“I was forced to study from age six on to learn calligraphy,” Shinoda says, The young girl dutifully memorized and copied the accepted models. In one sense, her father had pushed her in a promising direction, one of the few professional fields in Japan open to females. Included among the ancient terms that had evolved around calligraphy was onnade, or woman's writing.
Heresy lay ahead. By the time she was 15, she had already been through nine years of intensive discipline, “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style. My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.”
She produces a brush and a piece of paper to demonstrate the nature of her rebellion. “This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river,” she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes. “But I wanted to use more than three lines to show the force of the river.” Her brush flows across the white page, leaving a recognizable river behind, also flowing.” The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.”
Her conviction grew that ink could convey the ineffable, the feeling, "as she says, of wind blowing softly.” Another demonstration. She goes to the sliding wooden door of an anteroom and disappears in back of it; the only trace of her is a triangular swatch of the right sleeve of her kimono, which she has arranged for that purpose. A realization dawns. The task of this artist is to paint that three sided pattern so that the invisible woman attached to it will be manifest to all viewers.
Gen, painted especially for TIME, shows Shinoda’s theory in practice. She calls the work “my conception of Japan in visual terms.” A dark swath at the left, punctuated by red, stands for history. In the center sits a Chinese character gen, which means in the present or actuality. A blank pattern at the right suggests an unknown future.
Once out of school, Shinoda struck off on a path significantly at odds with her culture. She recognized marriage for what it could mean to her career (“a restriction”) and decided against it. There was a living to be earned by doing traditional calligraphy:she used her free time to paint her variations. In 1940 a Tokyo gallery exhibited her work. (Fourteen years would pass before she got a second show.)War came, and bad times for nearly everyone, including the aspiring artist , who retreated to a rural area near Mount Fuji and traded her kimonos for eggs.
In 1954 Shinoda’s work was included in a group exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Two years later, she overcame bureaucratic obstacles to visit the U.S.. Unmarried Japanese women are allowed visas for only three months, patiently applying for two-month extensions, one at a time, Shinoda managed to travel the country for two years. She pulls out a scrapbook from this period. Leafing through it, she suddenly raises a hand and touches her cheek:”How young I looked!” An inspection is called for. The woman in the grainy, yellowing newspaper photograph could easily be the on e sitting in this room. Told this, she nods and smiles. No translation necessary.
Her sojourn in the U.S. proved to be crucial in the recognition and development of Shinoda’s art. Celebrities such as actor Charles Laughton and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet bought her paintings and spread the good word. She also saw the works of the abstract expressionists, then the rage of the New York City art world, and realized that these Western artists, coming out of an utterly different tradition, were struggling toward the same goal that had obsessed her. Once she was back home, her work slowly made her famous.
Although Shinoda has used many materials (fabric, stainless steel, ceramics, cement), brush and ink remain her principal means of expression. She had said, “As long as I am devoted to the creation of new forms, I can draw even with muddy water.” Fortunately, she does not have to. She points with evident pride to her ink stone, a velvety black slab of rock, with an indented basin, that is roughly a foot across and two feet long. It is more than 300 years old. Every working morning, Shinoda pours about a third of a pint of water into it, then selects an ink stick from her extensive collection, some dating back to China’s Ming dynasty. Pressing stick against stone, she begins rubbing. Slowly, the dried ink dissolves in the water and becomes ready for the brush. So two batches of sumi (India ink) are exactly alike; something old, something new. She uses color sparingly. Her clear preference is black and all its gradations. “In some paintings, sumi expresses blue better than blue.”
It is time to go downstairs to the living quarters. A niece, divorced and her daughter,10,stay here with Shinoda; the artist who felt forced to renounce family and domesticity at the outset of her career seems welcome to it now. Sake is offered, poured into small cedar boxes and happily accepted. Hold carefully. Drink from a corner. Ambrosial. And just right for the surroundings and the hostess. A conservative renegade; a liberal traditionalist; a woman steeped in the male-dominated conventions that she consistently opposed. Her trail blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso’s.
When she says goodbye, she bows. --by Paul Gray...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
In the Cloud
Located in Bristol, GB
Lithograph in colours, on Arches paper, with full margins
Edition of 150
42.2 x 33 cm (16.6 x 12.9 in)
Signed, numbered and dated on the front
Mint. Artwork not inspected outside of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
THE DOOR OF JUSTICE Signed Lithograph, Black Lawyers Civil Rights Social Justice
Located in Union City, NJ
THE DOOR OF JUSTICE is an original, hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the highly acclaimed African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor bes...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph
Unsettled (hand signed and inscribed by Jamie Wyeth), offset lithograph poster
By Jamie Wyeth
Located in New York, NY
Jamie Wyeth
Unsettled (hand signed and inscribed by Jamie Wyeth), 2024
Offset lithograph poster (signed and inscribed to Kevin in black marker)
Boldly signed and inscribed "for Kevin" on the lower front. Accompanied by documentation of the event at Rizzoli's where Jamie Wyeth signed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
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