Skip to main content

Akio Takamori Prints and Multiples

Japanese, 1950-2017
Akio Takamori (1950 – January 11, 2017) was a Japanese-American ceramic sculptor and was a faculty member at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Takamori was born in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan in 1950 October 11. The son of an obstetrician/gynecologist who ran a clinic, Takamori was exposed to a wide range of people from an early age. At home, his father’s extensive library of both art and medical texts became a fascination for Takamori, who relished everything from Picasso reproductions to anatomical charts. Takamori’s interest in the arts persisted into early adulthood and upon his graduation from the Musashino Art College in 1971, he apprenticed to a master folk potter at Koishiwara, Fukuoka, Kyushu – Koishiwara ware. While learning the craft of industrial ceramics in a factory setting, he saw a traveling exhibition of contemporary ceramic art from Latin America, Canada, and the United States. Blown away by what he describes as the “antiauthoritarian” quality of the work, Takamori began to question his future as an industrial potter. When renowned American ceramist Ken Ferguson visited the pottery, the two had an immediate rapport and Ferguson encouraged Takamori go to the United States and study with him at the Kansas City Art Institute. In 1974 Takamori made the move to the United States, receiving his B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute and later attending Alfred University in New York for his M.F.A. After working as a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, he moved to Seattle, Washington in 1993, where he took his current teaching position as associate professor of the ceramics department. Takamori’s evolution as an artist began as he worked with Ferguson to break free of the constraints of industrial pottery and find new ways to express himself in clay. Since those first years at the Kansas City Art Institute his work has changed greatly, but it has always been figurative, based on the human body and expressive of human emotion and sensuality. In the 1980s, Takamori worked innovatively with the vessel form and its structure, creating flat envelope shaped pots formed from slabs. In the mid-1990s a visit to the European Ceramic Work Center in the Netherlands resulted in a shift from vessels back to an early interest in sculpture and the figure. Takamori created groupings of standing figural sculptures. The figures portray historical characters, contemporary society and rural villagers recalled from the artist's childhood in Japan. Most of Takamori’s work has been strongly influenced by his Japanese heritage. He has translated traditional Japanese prints into three-dimensional porcelain sculptures, he recreated his hometown in Japan from memory using clay, and he has translated Peter Bruegel’s paintings into sculptures of Japanese people. Takamori collaborated with Master Printer Mike Sims, of The Lawrence Lithography Workshop in Kansas City, Missouri, to create a series of prints that combine digital images of his ceramic sculptures with more traditional lithography printing techniques.
to
1
1
1
1
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
3
5
1,577
1,075
939
667
1
2
1
2
1
3
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
Artist: Akio Takamori
Honey Thief

Akio TakamoriHoney Thief, 2016

$1,499Sale Price|40% Off

Honey Thief

By Akio Takamori

Located in Kansas City, MO

Honey Thief, 2016 Medium: 5 Color Lithograph Edition: 27 Paper: Handmade HMP Waterleaf Paper Size: 24.5″ x 20.5″ (irregular) Image Size: 21.75″ x 13″ (irregular) COA provided On the...

Category

2010s Contemporary Akio Takamori Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled by Akio Takamori
Untitled by Akio Takamori

Untitled by Akio Takamori

By Akio Takamori

Located in Morton Grove, IL

photo xerox with ink image size - 5 x 6”; frame size - 11 x 12” BIO Akio Takamori (1950 - 2017) was a sculptor, printmaker, and painter who explored human relationships: interperso...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Akio Takamori Prints and Multiples

Materials

Ink, Laser

Secret State Goddess
Secret State Goddess

Secret State Goddess

By Akio Takamori

Located in Kansas City, MO

Akio Takamori "Secret State Goddess" Monoprint, woodcut, gold paint Year: 1989 Signed by artist & dated "7/1989" *created at the Anderson Ranch Art Center Size: 39 x 21.5" Akio Takamori (1950 – January 11, 2017) was a Japanese-American ceramic sculptor and was a faculty member at the University of Washington. Akio Takamori’s evolution as an artist began as he worked with Ferguson to break free of the constraints of industrial pottery and find new ways to express himself in clay. Since those first years at the Kansas City Art Institute his work has changed greatly, but it has always been figurative, based on the human body and expressive of human emotion and sensuality. In the 1980s, Takamori worked innovatively with the vessel form and its structure, creating flat envelope shaped pots formed from slabs. Once the ceramic piece was finished, he would paint onto the surface adding details of the figures that he was representing. These figures often explored human relationships. His work in this format lasted about ten years. In the mid-1990s a visit to the European Ceramic Work Center in The Netherlands resulted in a shift from vessels back to an early interest in sculpture and the figure. Takamori created groupings of standing figural sculptures...

Category

1980s Contemporary Akio Takamori Prints and Multiples

Materials

Monoprint

Related Items
Imagine You Are Driving (Fast) Oliver with Helmet, Signed Lambda Print, 2002
Imagine You Are Driving (Fast) Oliver with Helmet, Signed Lambda Print, 2002

Imagine You Are Driving (Fast) Oliver with Helmet, Signed Lambda Print, 2002

By Julian Opie

Located in Aventura, FL

Lambda print in colors, on Fuji color photographic paper dry-mounted to PVC (as issued). Hand signed and numbered in black marker on the reverse. Edition of 25/50. Published by Ala...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Akio Takamori Prints and Multiples

Materials

PVC, Photographic Paper, Lambda

Paris Café with Eiffel Tower France Limited Edition Print by British Artist
Paris Café with Eiffel Tower France Limited Edition Print by British Artist

Paris Café with Eiffel Tower France Limited Edition Print by British Artist

By Angela Wakefield

Located in Preston, GB

Paris Café with Eiffel Tower France Limited Edition Print of Figurative Cityscape Painting by Leading British Urban Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. Print measures 16 x 9.5 inch...

Category

2010s Contemporary Akio Takamori Prints and Multiples

Materials

Paper, Printer's Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Digital, Giclée

Matt Ferguson - Spiderman: Homecoming - Contemporary Cinema Movie Film Posters

Matt Ferguson - Spiderman: Homecoming - Contemporary Cinema Movie Film Posters

By Matt Ferguson

Located in Asheville, NC

Spiderman: Homecoming Spider-Man: Homecoming is a 2017 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the second Spider-Man film reboot and the 16th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Jon Watts, from a screenplay by the writing teams of Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, Watts and Christopher Ford, and Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. Tom Holland stars as Peter Parker / Spider-Man, alongside Michael Keaton, Jon Favreau, Gwyneth Paltrow, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Jacob Batalon, Laura Harrier, Tony Revolori, Bokeem Woodbine, Tyne Daly, Marisa Tomei, and Robert Downey Jr. In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter Parker tries to balance high school life with being Spider-Man while facing the Vulture. Artists: Ferguson, Matt Edition Details Year: 2020 Class: Cinema Status: Official Released: 07/16/20 Run: 300 Technique: Screen Print Size: 24 X 36 Markings: Numbered About Artist: "Matt Ferguson...

Category

2010s Contemporary Akio Takamori Prints and Multiples

Materials

Archival Paper, Color, Digital, Laser, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment...

Susan Dysinger New Orleans Jazz Monoprint
Susan Dysinger New Orleans Jazz Monoprint

Susan Dysinger New Orleans Jazz Monoprint

Located in San Francisco, CA

Incredibly detailed and colorful mono print from the American artist Susan Dysinger. She studied art at the university of California at Santa Barbara. Known for these New Orleans jaz...

Category

Late 20th Century American Realist Akio Takamori Prints and Multiples

Materials

Monoprint

Los Romanos En Tarquena, male nude photogravure by David Smith-Harrison

Los Romanos En Tarquena, male nude photogravure by David Smith-Harrison

By David Smith-Harrison

Located in Palm Springs, CA

David Smith-Harrison’s mixed-media print—combining photogravure, etching, and monoprint—presents a striking reinterpretation of classical sculpture. An elegantly modeled male nude st...

Category

2010s Contemporary Akio Takamori Prints and Multiples

Materials

Intaglio, Photogravure, Monoprint

Paul Mann - Frankenstein - Contemporary Cinema Movie Posters

Paul Mann - Frankenstein - Contemporary Cinema Movie Posters

By Paul Mann

Located in Asheville, NC

Frankenstein Frankenstein is a 1931 American science fiction horror film directed by James Whale, produced by Carl Laemmle Jr., and adapted from a 1927 play by Peggy Webling, which in turn was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Frankenstein stars Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein, an obsessed scientist who digs up corpses with his assistant in order to assemble a living being from body parts. The resulting creature, often known as Frankenstein's monster, is portrayed by Boris Karloff. The make-up for the monster was provided by Jack Pierce. Alongside Clive and Karloff, the film's cast also includes Mae Clarke, John Boles, Dwight Frye, and Edward Van Sloan. Artist: Mann, Paul Edition Details Year: 2020 Class: Cinema Status: Official Released: 07/14/20 Run: 165 Technique: Offset Lithograph Paper: 300gsm archival paper Size: 24 X 36 Markings: Numbered About Artist: For more than 40 years, Paul Mann...

Category

2010s Contemporary Akio Takamori Prints and Multiples

Materials

Archival Paper, Color, Digital, Laser, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment...

Huge Red Grooms Monotype Oil Painting LA Hollywood Circus Film Cartoon Pop Art
Huge Red Grooms Monotype Oil Painting LA Hollywood Circus Film Cartoon Pop Art

Huge Red Grooms Monotype Oil Painting LA Hollywood Circus Film Cartoon Pop Art

By Red Grooms

Located in Surfside, FL

Red Grooms (American, b. 1937). Keystone Kops to the Rescue III. 2006. Triptych color monotype created by the artist with lithographic ink on plexiglass plates, and then hand-color...

Category

Early 2000s Pop Art Akio Takamori Prints and Multiples

Materials

Monoprint, Monotype

Paul Mann - Close Encounter of the Third Kind - Contemporary Cinema Movie Poster

Paul Mann - Close Encounter of the Third Kind - Contemporary Cinema Movie Poster

By Paul Mann

Located in Asheville, NC

Close Encounters of the Third Kind : Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction film, written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. It tells the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO). Artist: Mann, Paul Manufacturer VGKids Edition Details Year: 2019 Class: Cinema Status: Fan Art Run: 75 Technique: Screen Print Size: 24 X 36 Markings: Signed & Numbered About Artist: For more than 40 years, Paul Mann...

Category

2010s Contemporary Akio Takamori Prints and Multiples

Materials

Archival Paper, Color, Digital, Laser, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment...

Cathedral of Dignes - Lithograph by Ossi Czinner - 1970s

Cathedral of Dignes - Lithograph by Ossi Czinner - 1970s

By Ossi Czinner

Located in Roma, IT

Image dimensions: 54 x 35 cm. Hand signed. Artist's proof. Very good conditions.

Category

1970s Contemporary Akio Takamori Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Who Are You?
Who Are You?

Who Are You?

By Barbara Wagner

Located in Brecon, Powys

"Who Are You?" One of a series of 18 individual mono prints printed using the  screen printing process. All 18 are different colours. They are all on Fabri...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Akio Takamori Prints and Multiples

Materials

Paper, Monoprint, Screen

Tom Whalen - Toy Story 2 - Contemporary Cinema Movie Film Posters

Tom Whalen - Toy Story 2 - Contemporary Cinema Movie Film Posters

By Tom Whalen

Located in Asheville, NC

Toy Story 2 : Toy Story 2 is a 1999 American computer-animated comedy film directed by John Lasseter and produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney...

Category

2010s Contemporary Akio Takamori Prints and Multiples

Materials

Archival Paper, Color, Digital, Laser, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment...

Previously Available Items
Fruit Tree

Akio TakamoriFruit Tree, 1993

Sold

H 33.5 in W 15 in

Fruit Tree

By Akio Takamori

Located in Kansas City, MO

Artist: Akio Takamori Title: Fruit Tree Date: 1993 Medium: 4 Color Lithograph Dimensions: 33.5 x 15 inches Editions: 30 Akio Takamori’s evolution as an ar...

Category

1990s Expressionist Akio Takamori Prints and Multiples

Materials

Printer's Ink, Color, Lithograph

Akio Takamori prints and multiples for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Akio Takamori prints and multiples available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Akio Takamori in lithograph, ink, printer's ink and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Akio Takamori prints and multiples, so small editions measuring 11 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Mikio Watanabe, Katsunori Hamanishi, and Mari Ito. Akio Takamori prints and multiples prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,250 and tops out at $7,125, while the average work can sell for $2,600.