Minoru Kawabata
Japanese artist
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Minoru Kawabata (22 May 1911 – 29 June 2001) Japanese artist, whose works comprise Abstract Expressionist, Color field paintings.
Life and work
Kawabata was born in Tokyo in 1911. He graduated from Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts in 1934. He studied in Paris and Italy between 1937-39. Starting in 1950 he taught art at the Tam University, Tokyo; he was a professor of art there until 1955.
At the New School for Social Research in New York City he taught for three years until 1961. Having spent two years in Japan he returned to New York City. He painted in an Abstract Expressionist style in the 1950s and in a colour field style after the 1960s.
Collection
- Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil
- Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
- Museo Premio Lissone, Milan
- National Museum, Tokyo
- Guide LeNoci, Milan
Exhibitions
- 1977, 20-31 December, Group Exhibition at the Betty Parsons Gallery; Mino Argento, Calvert Coggeshall, Richard Tuttle, Ruth Vollmer, Helene Aylon and Cleve Gray (among others)
Reviews
- Art News, March 1967, Lawrence Campbell
- House & Garden, Feb. 1968 (Painting Reproduced)
- Arts Magazine, December 1968- jan. 1969
- Times Magazine, January 24, 1969
- Art News, March 1969 Lawrence Campbell
- Studio International, February 1970
- Art News, March 1971 Carter Ratcliff
- Arts Magazine, March 1971 (painting reproduced)