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Toko Shinoda Paintings

Japanese, 1913-2021
Toko Shinoda is a Japanese artist known for sumi ink paintings and prints that blend traditional calligraphy with modern abstraction. Born in China in 2013 during Japanese occupation, she moved to Japan with her family at age 2. Shinoda had an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1953. She subsequently moved to New York three years later, residing there until 1958. There, she came into contact with the works of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and other key figures of the abstract expressionism movement. During her life she was represented by Betty Parsons Gallery in New York and Annely Juda Gallery in London, among others. A 1983 interview in Time magazine asserted "her trail-blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso's". Her style was described as "an art of elegant simplicity and high drama" by the The Plain Dealer in 1997. Her art was also characterized by The Independent in 2011 as "elegant, minimal and very, very composed", adding that "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". Shinoda was honored on a postage stamp issued by Japan Post Holdings in 2016. She was the only Japanese artist to have been celebrated in this manner while still alive. 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 (New York), 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.
(Biography provided by Manabia Fine Arts)
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Artist: Toko Shinoda
Quietude. Abstract Painting (1979) by Toko Shinoda
By Toko Shinoda
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Toko SHINODA (Japanese, 1913‐2021) QUIETUDE Sumi ink and watercolor on paper laid on board 22 by 32.5 in. (55.9 x 82.6 cm.) Sealed on the front; titled and signed on the reverse Executed in 1979 The present art work is accompanied by a registration card issued by Gallery Sankaibi. PROVENANCE Betty Parsons Gallery, New York Don Brady Bondi collection, acquired on March 26th, 1981 Sale: Clark’s Fine Art and Auctioneers, Van Nuys...
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1970s Abstract Toko Shinoda Paintings

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Paper, Sumi Ink, Board

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