Sekine Yoshio 関根美夫, 1922-1985.

Sekine Yoshio was born in Wakayama Prefecture and studied with the painter Yoshihara Jiro (1905-1972) who founded the Gutai group of avant-garde artists in 1954. Sekine began painting the abacus in 1963, a subject that he has explored in many prints.

See:

  • Blakemore, Frances. Who's Who in Modern Japanese Prints. New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1975, p. 176.
  • Tolman, Mary S. and Norman H. People Who Make Japanese Prints-A Personal Glimpse. Sobunsha, Tokyo, May 1982, pp. 22-23 and 142-14.
Sekine_Yoshio_427-G (1447K) Creator.Personal Name: 関根美夫, 1922-1985.
Creator.Personal Name: Sekine Yoshio, 1922-1985.
Creator.Role: print-maker
Title: 427-G.
Description: colored serigraph; dated '77; pencil signed in margin with seal; edition number 6/35.
Date: 1977.
Type: Screen prints.
Subject: Abaci.
Style.Period: Modern.
Technique: Prints.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: image 9 x 23 in., plus full large margins.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
ID: Sekine Yoshio L-1
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.
Signature & seal:
Sekine_Yoshio_427-G_sigseal (113K)
Visual Arts