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Taro Yamamoto Art

American, 1919-1994

Taro Yamamoto was a member of the New York Abstract Expressionist School. Born in California in 1919, he returned to Japan until the age of 19 to receive a traditional Japanese education. Already exhibiting great promise as an artist at a young age, he enrolled in Los Angeles City College upon his return. He served in the Second World War from 1941–46, after which he continued his art studies at Santa Monica College and then, New York City. It was at the famous Art Students League in New York that Yamamoto had the opportunity to study with Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Morris Kantor, Vaclav Vytlacil and Byron Browne. His talent was well-recognized as he was awarded a scholarship to the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in 1952 and a traveling fellowship to Europe in 1953. Yamamoto eventually settled with his wife and son in the art colony of Wellfleet on Cape Cod where he died in 1994. During Yamamoto's most prolific period in the 50s and early 60s he had solo exhibitions at the Gallerie Huit in Paris, the Art Students League and Krasner Gallery in New York and Gallery 371 in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

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Artist: Taro Yamamoto
New York School Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media Painting Handmade Paper Board
By Taro Yamamoto
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an interesting abstract work done with handmade Japanese Kozo or Washi type fiber paper mounted on board. Hand signed and dated in wonderful muted earth tones of fall foliage. Taro Yamamoto (1919 – 1994) belonged to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and others became a leading art movement of the post World War II era. He was also associated with Action painting Yamamoto was born in Hollywood, California. He lived in Japan from age six to age nineteen. In 1936 he returned to the USA and began studies in cubism at Los Angeles City College. In 1941 he joined the U.S. Army and served during WWII. After being discharged from the service he returned to California where he studied at the Santa Monica City College. 1950-1952 at The Art Students League of New York, under Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Morris Kantor, Reginald Marsh, Byron Browne and Vaclav Vytlacil; 1951-1953 at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in New York City. In 1952 he won a John Sloan Fellowship from the Art Students League. The next year he traveled to Europe under a Edward G. MacDowell Traveling Fellowship where he studies in Stuttgart, Germany with Willi Baumeister. He also exhibited at Galerie Huit in Paris. In 1954 Yamamoto was invited to a residency at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. There he worked alongside Stuart Davis, Milton Avery, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko developing his unique abstract expressionist style. Later in his life he devoted himself to a more hard-edge geometric style of painting. He married Gwyneth Cotton, a naturalized English woman, in 1955, and they lived in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. They were active at the Universalist Church of Provincetown. (He descended from a long line of Shinto priests) Yamamoto died in Provincetown in 1994. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1953: Galerie Huit, Paris; 1955: The Art Students League of New York, NYC; 1960-1962: Krasner Gallery, NYC; 1963-1964: 371 Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Selected Group Exhibitions 1951: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; 1952: NY Contemporary Gallery, NYC; 1952, 1955, 1956, 1962: Provincetown Art...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Taro Yamamoto Art

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Paint, Mixed Media, Board, Handmade Paper

Large New York School Abstract Expressionist Colorful Mixed Media Painting
By Taro Yamamoto
Located in Surfside, FL
Taro Yamamoto, (American, 1919-1994) "La Gatta Miso" Oil or Acrylic/Canvas 32" x 50" Hand signed lower right, dated 1990, Titled on the stretcher verso, unframed. Taro Yamamoto (...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Taro Yamamoto Art

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Untitled Abstract Expressionist watercolor, pencil signed, Japanese-American art
By Taro Yamamoto
Located in New York, NY
Taro Yamamoto Untitled Abstract Expressionist watercolor, ca. 1957 Watercolor wash, drips & splatter on rice paper Pencil signed on the front 12 × 16 inches Unframed Mid century mod...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Taro Yamamoto Art

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Watercolor, Rice Paper, Pencil

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1962 abstract expressionist painting by Japanese-American artist, Taro Yamamoto (1919-2004). Oil and sand on canvas measures an impressive 40 x 50 inches; 41 x 51 inches in original wood strip frame. Signed and dated lower left. Excellent condition with no damage or restoration. Incredibly heavy layers of built-up black impasto with bright underpainting evident beneath. Birth place: Hollywood, CA Addresses: Brooklyn 1, NY/Provincetown (1951-on) Profession: Painter Studied: Santa Monica City College; ASL with Kuniyoshi, Kantor, Browne, Vytlacil, 1950-51; Hans Hoffman Sch. FA, NYC, 1951-53 Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1951; Provincetown AA, 1952, 1954-58; Contemp. Art Gal., NY, 1953; Sun Gal., Gal. 256, and Little Gal., all Provincetown, 1955-57; ASL, 1955 (solo); Galerie 8, Paris, 1953 (solo); ACA Gal., NYC, 1953 (solo); Provincetown Art Gal., 1958. Scholarships & fellowships: Hans Hofmann Sch. FA, 1951; ASL, 1952 (John Sloan Mem. fellow); McDowell traveling fellow, 1953; McDowell Colony, 1954, 1956-57. Member: Beachcombers Club; Provincetown AA Work: Methodist Church, Los Angeles; Walter Chrysler...
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