Taro Yamamoto (artist)

Taro Yamamoto (artist)

Infobox Person
name = Taro Yamamoto
birth_date = Birth date|1919|10|29
birth_place = Hollywood, California
death_date = Death date and age|1994|06|12|1919|10|29
death_place = Provincetown, Massachusetts
occupation = Abstract Expressionist Painter

Taro Yamamoto [ [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/50666793&tab=holdings "New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists,"] pp.378-381] (October 29, 1919 – June 12, 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.

Biography

Yamamoto was born October 29 1919 in Hollywood, California. He lived in Japan from age six to age nineteen. Yamamoto served in the U.S. Army during WW II, from November 7, 1941 to February 23, 1946.

Yamamoto studied: 1949 at the Santa Monica City College; 1950-1952 at The Art Students League of New York, under Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Morris Kantor, Byron Browne and Vaclav Vytlacil; 1951-1953 at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in New York.

Yamamoto in 1952 won the John Sloan Memorial Fellowship at The Art Students League of New York. In 1953, under the Edward G. McDowell Traveling Fellowship went to Europe.

Yamamoto died in 1994.

elected Solo Exhibitions

*1953: Gallerie Huit, Paris;
*1955: The Art Students League of New York, NYC;
*1960-1962: Krasner Gallery, NYC;
*1963-1964: 371 Gallery , Provincetown, MA;

elected Group Exhibitions

*1951: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts;
*1952: NY Contemporary Gallery, NYC;
*1952, 1955, 1956, 1962: Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA;
*1953: "New York Painting and Sculpture Annual," Stable Gallery, NYC;
*1958: Riverside Museum, NYC;
*1960: University of Minnesota and Dayton Art Institute;
*1957, 1965: Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY

References

*Provincetown Art Association & Museum, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/193550963&referer=brief_results "New York--Provincetown, a 50s connection: July 8-August 1, 1994"] Publisher: The Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA: 1994. OCLC: 193550963

Books

* Marika Herskovic, [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/50666793&tab=holdings "New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists,"] (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6

ee also

*Art movement
*Abstract expressionism
*New York School
*Action painting

External links for image reproduction

* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/694691/taro-yamamoto.html Taro Yamamoto paintings] from artnet.com


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