"Kenzo Okada Paintings" 1971 Betty Parsons Gallery
$150
Betty Parsons Gallery
Plates: #3 Pine Tree, #5 Red, #7 Bridge, #11 Leaves, #13 Bamboo, #14 Rock
(6 of 16 plates present)
1971
8" x 8"
Kenzo Okada (born on September 28, 1902, died on July 25, 1982) was a Japanese-born American painter and the first Japanese-American artist to work in the Abstract Expressionist style and receive international acclaim. At the 29th Venice Biennale in 1958, Okada’s work was exhibited in the Japan Pavilion alongside that of five other Japanese artists, and Okada won the Astorre Meyer Prize and UNESCO Prize. According to artist Michelle Stuart, "when Okada came to the United States he was already a mature painter, well considered in his native Japan. To American abstraction Okada brought civilized restraint, an elegance of device and an unusual gift for poetic transmutation of natural forms."