Amano Kunihiro 天野邦弘, 1929-
Born in Hirosaki, Aomori prefecture, Amano Kunihiro graduated from the Aomori Prefectural Technical school. He is self-taught as a woodblock artist. His prints typically show fantastic birds or fish and he depicts strongly colored geometrical shapes.
See:
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Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada. Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1992), p. 9.
Creator.Personal Name: Amano Kunihiro, 1929-
Creator.Role: print-maker
Title: Enclosure 12.
Description: colored and embossed woodblock print; signed in white ink in the image and pencil in the margin; edition number 26/30; date 1965.
Date: 1965.
Subject: Abstract prints.
Subject: Abstracts.
Type: Woodcuts.
Style.Period: Modern.
Technique: Prints.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 22.5 x 15.5 in. paper, 21.5 x 25 in. image on washi.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
ID: Amano Kunihiro L-2
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.
