Matsumi Kanemitsu - (1922 – 1992)

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

1942 Service Club, Fort Riley, Kansas 1952 Playhouse, Baltimore, Maryland 1953 Gallery 77, New Haven, Connecticut; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, “Drawings” 1954 Gallery 77, New Haven, Connecticut Western Maryland College Baltimore Museum of Art, “Drawings” Berlin Academy, Germany 1955 Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, Washington 1957 New Gallery, New York, New York 1958 Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1959 Widdifield Gallery, New York, New York 1960 Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, New York 1961 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois Mili-Jay Gallery, Woodstock, New York Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1962 Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, New York; Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1963 I Gallery, La Jolla, California 1964 Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio, “Ten Year Retrospective” 1966 Occidental College, Los Angeles. Two-man show. Worth Ryder Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley. Two-man show. 1967 Paul Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii 1968 California Institute of the Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1969 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Michael Wallis Gallery, San Francisco, California 1970 Serisawa Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1971 Michael Smith Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1972 Michael Smith Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1973 Pacific Culture Asia Museum, Pasadena, California 1974 Jodi Scully Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1975 M.M Shinno Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1977 The Janus Gallery, Venice, California; M. Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 1978 Los Angeles Municipal Art Galleries, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, California, “Selected Works 1968-78” 1979 Art Space, Los Angeles, California 1980 Janus Gallery, Venice, California 1983 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California, “Drawings” 1984 Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, California 1985 Suzukawa Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan; Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, California 1986 Bancho Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, California 1987 Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, California 1988 Doizaki Gallery, Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California 1989 Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, California 1990 Joy Tash Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, California Memory’s Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Gallery of Liberal Art, Hiroshima, Japan Yamaki Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan

(To date, 14 solo exhibitions and over 1,000 group shows)

Selected Group Exhibitions

1948 through 1952 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland 1950, “Annual Exhibition”

1950 Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1951 Contemporary Art Gallery, New York City

1952 A.C.A. Gallery, New York City; Chicago Institute of Art, Chicago, Illinois, “International Drawing Exhibition”

1953 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

1954 Berlin Academy, Berlin, Germany

1956 Guild Hall, Easthampton, New York, “A Selection of American Watercolors” Museum of Modern Art, New York City, “Recent Drawings USA” Ruth Moskin Gallery, New York City, “Four-man Show” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, “Whitney Annual”

1957 New School for Social Research, New York City

1959 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York March Gallery, New York City Wagner College, Staten Island, New York; Widdifield Gallery, New York City, “Four Painters – Three Sculptors”

1960 Area Gallery, New York City; Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts, Dallas, Texas; Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California, “15 of New York” Illinois Wesleyan University, College of Fine Arts, Bloomington, Illinois, “Annual Purchase Exhibition” March Gallery, New York City’ Stephen Radich Gallery, New York City, “Drawings, Painting and Sculpture Exhibition” Stephen Radich Gallery, New York City, “American and European Drawings”

1961 University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

1962 Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, “Strutture E Stile” American Gallery, New York City Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, “New Accessions” Louis Alexander Gallery, New York City, “Recent American Drawings” Museum of Modern Art, New York City, “14 Americans” Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, “American Drawings” Stanhope Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts’ Tanager Gallery, New York City’ University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, ‘Acquisitions”

1963 American Gallery, New York City’ Corinthian Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’ Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, “12 American Artists” Martha Jackson Gallery, New York City, “Artists for CORE” Museum of Modern Art, New York City, “60 Drawings: Recent Acquisitions” New School for Social Research, New York City, “Landscape in Recent American Painting” Anderson-Mayer Gallery, Paris

1963-66 “Abstract Watercolors by 14 Americans”, organized by the Museum of Modern Art traveling to: USIS Gallery, London, England; Ljubijana, Yugoslavia; Osaka, Japan; Hellenic-American Union, Athens, Greece; Multipurpose Hall, Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay, India; Trivandrum Museum, Trivandrum, India; Government College of Fine Arts and Crafts, Madras, India; Triveni Kala Sangam Gallery, New Delhi, India; Cathedral Hall, Hazratgunji, Lucknow, India; Sanskar Kendra Museum, Ahmedabad, India; Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta, India; American Cultural Center, Patna, India; Lionel Wendt Gallery, Colombo, Ceylon, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Newcastle City Art Gallery, Newcastle, Australia; Melbourne, Australia; Perth, Australia; Christchurch, New Zealand

1964 American Federation of Arts, New York City, “Artists for CORE” Greenross Gallery, New York City, “The Red Show” Grippi & Waddell, New York City, “Optical and Hard Edge” Museum of Modern Art, New York City, “Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as New Printmakers” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, “Some Paintings to Consider” American Embassy, Tokyo, (lent by Raymond Burr) Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan

1964-67 “Art in the Embassies”, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, traveling to: Bogota, Colombia; Tokyo, Japan; Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Modern Gallery, Rijecka, Yugoslavia; Gallery of Art, Maribor, Yugoslavia; Mexico City, Mexico; American Embassy, Helsinki, Finland; American Embassy, Abidjan, Ivory Coast

1965 Gallery of Modern Art, New York City, “19th and 20th Century Drawing” Graham Gallery, New York City, “Artists for CORE’ Grippi & Waddell, New York City “Group Show” Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; “Northeastern Regional Exhibition” (traveling exhibition sponsored by the Mead Corporation) “Art Across America” Knoedler Gallery, New York City, “Art Across America”, Laura Knott Gallery, Bradford Junior College, Massachusetts, “Contemporary Japanese Painting” American Embassy, Mexico City, “Art in the Embassies”

1966 David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, California’ White House, Washington, D.C., “Rotating Loan Exhibition” (lent by the Smithsonian Institution) American Embassy, Helsinki, “Art in the Embassies” National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Western Australia Art Gallery, Perth, Australia, “Abstract Watercolors by 14 Americans” Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand, “Abstract Watercolors by 14 Americans”

1967 American Embassy, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, “Art in the Embassies” Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, “4th International Young Artists Exhibition” (sponsored by the Japan Cultural Forum) La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, California, “Art Across America” Museum of Modern Art, New York City, “In Memory of My Feelings” University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, “Contemporary American Drawings, 1960-67” Paul Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1968 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, “Recent Acquisitions” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, “Tamarind Collection”

1969 David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, California, “Erotic Art ‘69” Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California, “Four-man Show” Museum of Modern Art, New York City, “Tamarind: An Homage to Lithography” Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Indiana. “Erotic Art” Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1970 Art Gallery, College of Marin, Kentfield, California California College of Arts & Crafts Gallery, Oakland, California, “A Show of Hands” Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Chicago, Illinois, “The 1960s: A Decade of Accomplishments” Martha Jackson Gallery, New York City, “Black/White/Color” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, “Recent Acquisitions” University of California, Santa Barbara, California, “Trends in 20th Century Art” (loaned by San Francisco Museum of Art Collection)

1971 Florida State University Art Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida, “Invitational Lithography Exhibition” Frederick Wight Art Gallery, Grunewald Graphic Arts Foundation, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, “Made in California” Museum of Modern Art, New York City, “Graphic Collection: Summer Show” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, “Black and White Drawings and Watercolors” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, “Recent Acquisitions”,

1972 Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California; “Four-man Show”, Otis Art Institute Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Pacificulture Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, “Calligraphy and Its Influence on the Arts of East and West” Serisawa Gallery, Los Angeles, California, “Calligraphy and Calligraphic Forms”

1974 Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, “In the Japanese Tradition” California State University, Northridge Art Gallery, Northridge, California, “Drawings”

1976 Janus Gallery, Venice, California, “Five on Paper”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, “Private Images: Photographs by Painters” Los Angeles Municipal Art Galleries, Los Angeles, California, “A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.”

1977 Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, “Watercolors and Related Media by Contemporary Californians” College of Creative Studies Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, “Photographs by Southern California Painters and Sculptors” Janus Gallery, Venice, California, “Olitski, Boxer, Stamos and Kanemitsu”

1980 Palos Verdes Art Gallery, Palos Verdes, California, “Four Printmakers”

1981 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., “Contemporary American Prints and Drawings: 1940-80” Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, Japan, “25 L.A. Painters”

1982 Los Angeles Municipal Art Galleries, Los Angeles, California, “25 L.A. Painters”

1983 Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, “The California Connection – 16 Paintings”

1986 Wakayama Prefecture Museum of Modern Art, Kagawa Cultural Center, Hiroshima Prefecture Museum of Modern Art, Japan, “Japanese Artists Who Studied in U.S.A. 1875-1960”

1989 Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan, Commissioned Work: “Theme Hiroshima”

1990 American Gallery, Los Angeles, California, “Functionists High”

Osaka Triennalle ’90, International Exhibit

1991 Osaka Triennale ’90, International Exhibition

Selected Public Collections – Matsumi Kanemitsu

Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio American Cultural Center, Tokyo, Japan Amon Carter Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Art Institute of Chicago Australian National Gallery, Cambria, Australia Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France Chrysler Museum, Norfolk Virginia Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Cypress College, Cypress, California Dillard University, New Orleans, Louisiana Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fresno Art Center, Fresno, California Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C. Goucher College, Towson, Maryland Grunewald Graphic Arts Foundation, UCLA, Los Angeles, California Hall of Justice, San Francisco, California Hiroshima State Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii Housatonic Community College, Stratford, Connecticut Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, Los Angeles, California Kamakura Museum of Modern Art, Japan La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, California Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Massachusetts Art Institute, Boston, Massachusetts Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Miami Museum of Art, Miami, Florida Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Museum National of Wales, Cardiff Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Nagaoka Museum of Modern Art, Japan Nagoya City Hall, Nagoya, Japan National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, California Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Pasadena Art Museum Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pushkin Museum, Moscow, USSR San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California Shields Library, University of California, Davis, California Tougaloo University, Tougaloo, Mississippi United States Information Agency, Washington, DC. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona University of California, Los Angeles Faculty Center, Los Angeles, California University of Iowa Art Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina William Rockhill Neson Gallery Kansas City, Missouri Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, Massachusetts

(Over 51 Public Collections)

Lithography Workshops (and Publishers)

Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc., Los Angeles, California

Tamstone, Los Angeles, California

Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles, California

Collector Press, San Francisco, California

June Wayne Studio, Los Angeles, California

Angeles Press, Los Angeles, California

Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Tamarind Ole Jurgen Fischer Studio, New York, New York

Awards and Grants:

1948 Annual Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

1953 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

1961 Ford Foundation Grant, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Hollywood

1962 International Young Artist Award, Tokyo, Japan

1962 Longview Foundation Grant and award

1964 Longview Foundation Grant

1964 Ford Foundation Grant, (sponsored by the American Federation of Arts), artist-in-residence, Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio

1967 Artist-in-Residence – Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii

1967 Japan Cultural Forum – International Award

1967 Who’s Who in American Art ‘66

1974 The Council on International Non-Theatrical Arts – Documentary Film “ Four Stones for Kanemitsu” (The Golden Eagle Award and Academy Award Nominee

1974 National Society of Literature & the Arts, Member of the Society

1974 Academy Awards Nomination - Short Subject Documentary Film “Four Stones for Kanemitsu”

1974 Osaka Triennale ’90, Special Award – Kinki Nippon Railway Award

1974 Golden Eagle Award

1974 Member - National Society of the Arts and Literature

1974 Who’s Who in the West ’70, ‘71

1974 Who’s Who in America ’70 to ‘87

Prizes: 1967, Japan Cultural Forum Award, 4th International Young Artists Exhibition

Videos:

1984 California Art Council ‘Matsumi Kanemitsu’ by Glen Hayashi

1985 ‘With You’ TV Interview – Hiroshima, Japan

1987 ‘Today’ ‘Japanese Artists Who Studied in USA 1875-1960’ TV Interview – Hiroshima, Japan

Oral History – Matsumi Kanemitsu – 1977

Teaching Experience:

1965-66, September to August Artist-in residence, Chouinard Art School, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles

1966, September to December Artist-in-Residence, University of California, Berkeley

1967, January to August Chouinard Art School, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles

1967-68, September to February Artist-in-Residence, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii –

1968-69< March to May Chouinard Art School, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles

1969, June to September California State University, Los Angeles

1969-70, September to May Chouinard Art School, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles

1970, April to May Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, “Workshop”

1970-72, September to March Chouinard Art School, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles

1970-71, September to June University of California, Berkeley

1971-83 Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles

1971-72, November to June California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California

1972-73, September Santa Barbara Art Institute, “Seminar”, Santa Barbara, California

Born: May 28, 1922, Dee Hospital, Ogden, Utah Died: May 11, 1992, Los Angeles, California

Residence: 1925-1938, 1940 – Japan 1946 to present - Paris, Baltimore, New York, Los Angeles

Service: 1941-1946 – United States Army

Education: Studied painting with Fernand Leger, Paris, France Studied with Kuniyoshi, Sternberg, Auston, and Browne at Art Student’s League, New York Studied sculpture with Karl Metzler, Baltimore, Maryland