San Francisco, 1968
Dublin Core
Title
San Francisco, 1968
Creator
Kanemitsu, Matsumi
Format
30 x 22 1/2 inches
Identifier
777
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Biography
Matsumi Kanemitsu was a Japanese-American painter who was also proficient in Japanese style sumi and lithography.
Matsumi Kanemitsu was born to Japanese parents in Ogden, Utah on May 28, 1922. At age three, he was taken to Japan and grew up in a suburb of Hiroshima. He returned to the United States in 1940 and enlisting in the United States Army in 1941. He was arrested after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and interned. While interned, he began drawing with supplies provided by the American Red Cross. After his release, Kanemitsu enlisted in the Army and served as a hospital assistant in Europe. In 1946, he was discharged from the Army and began his formal art education with Fernand Léger in Paris and with Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the Art Students League of New York. He was on the faculty of Chouinard Art Institute from 1965 to 1970 and the Otis College of Art and Design from 1971 to 1983. Matsumi Kanemitsu died of lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles on May 11, 1992.
Matsumi Kanemitsu is considered a second-generation abstract expressionist. He is best known for his non-objective paintings, which are often hard-edge, such as Landscape, from 1967, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are among the public collections holding work by Matsumi Kanemitsu.
Matsumi Kanemitsu was born to Japanese parents in Ogden, Utah on May 28, 1922. At age three, he was taken to Japan and grew up in a suburb of Hiroshima. He returned to the United States in 1940 and enlisting in the United States Army in 1941. He was arrested after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and interned. While interned, he began drawing with supplies provided by the American Red Cross. After his release, Kanemitsu enlisted in the Army and served as a hospital assistant in Europe. In 1946, he was discharged from the Army and began his formal art education with Fernand Léger in Paris and with Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the Art Students League of New York. He was on the faculty of Chouinard Art Institute from 1965 to 1970 and the Otis College of Art and Design from 1971 to 1983. Matsumi Kanemitsu died of lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles on May 11, 1992.
Matsumi Kanemitsu is considered a second-generation abstract expressionist. He is best known for his non-objective paintings, which are often hard-edge, such as Landscape, from 1967, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are among the public collections holding work by Matsumi Kanemitsu.
Category
WSPAC
Media
Lithograph
Media Details
Lithograph, 74/80
Signature Position
Signed, lower right, numbered 74/80
Donor
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lust
Citation
Kanemitsu, Matsumi , “San Francisco, 1968,” Westport Public Schools Digital Collections, accessed December 6, 2023, https://collections.westportps.org/items/show/862.
Item Relations
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