Taro Yamamoto, New York School Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media Painting Handmade Paper Board, 1957

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This is an interesting abstract work done with handmade Japanese Kozo or Washi type fiber paper mounted on board. Hand … Read more 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 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
Westerly Gallery
Provincetown Art Association & Museum
Miami Museum of Modern Ar
Dayton Art Institute
University of Minnesota
Wellfleet Art Studio
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Parrish Art Museum in Southampton along with many others. See less