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Tadashi Nakayama (artist)

Summary

Tadashi Nakayama (中山 正, Nakayama Tadashi, born 1927 Niigata, Niigata, died 2014) was a Japanese woodblock print artist, working in a style that combines influences from traditional Japanese ukiyo-e prints and Western painting.

He studied oil painting at Tama Art College but left in 1947.[1][2][3]

From 1962 to 1965 he lived in Milan, Italy and then England.[1][4] He taught at Bath Academy of Arts.[1]

Motifs in his work include butterflies, horses, cranes, and girls with long flowing hair.[1][5][6][7][8] Some of his later pieces were inspired by Persian, Byzantine and Renaissance styles.[3]

His catalogue raisonné is Tadashi Nakayama: His Life and Work, by Kappy Hendricks and Marshall Hendricks.[5][9]

His work is held in several museums, including the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco,[10][failed verification] the Minneapolis Institute of Art,[11] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[12] the Santa Barbara Museum of Art,[13] the National Museum of Asian Art,[14] the Carnegie Museum of Art,[15] the Seattle Art Museum,[16][failed verification] the University of Michigan Museum of Art,[7] the Brooklyn Museum,[17] the Portland Art Museum,[6] the Indianapolis Museum of Art,[8] the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco,[18] the Harvard Art Museums,[19] and the Honolulu Museum of Art.[20][failed verification]

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  1. ^ a b c d Tolman, Norman; Tolman, Mary (2012-10-16). Collecting Modern Japanese Prints: Then & Now. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-0374-0.
  2. ^ Merritt, Helen; Yamada, Nanako (1995-01-01). Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975. University of Hawaii Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-8248-1732-9.
  3. ^ a b "Nakayama, Tadashi | Artist | Ronin Gallery". www.roningallery.com. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  4. ^ See Illustrated biography
  5. ^ a b Tolman, Norman; Tolman, Mary (2012-10-16). Collecting Modern Japanese Prints: Then & Now. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-0374-0.
  6. ^ a b "Two Butterflies". portlandartmuseum.us. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  7. ^ a b "Exchange: Road of the Butterflies - Spring". University of Michigan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  8. ^ a b "Wind Swept Horse (Kaz haramu uma)". Indianapolis Museum of Art Online Collection. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  9. ^ Hendricks, Kappy; Hendricks, Marshall (1982). Tadashi Nakayama, his life and work. Bethesda, Md.: Irongate Editions Limited. ISBN 978-0-9609798-0-6. OCLC 428436126.
  10. ^ "Asian Art Museum Online Collection". Asian Art Museum. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  11. ^ "Nakayama Tadashi at the Minneapolis Institute of Art". Minneapolis Institute of Art Collections. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  12. ^ "LACMA Collections: Tadashi Nakayama". Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  13. ^ "Cyclone". collections.sbma.net. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  14. ^ "Clown". Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  15. ^ "CMOA Collection". Carnegie Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  16. ^ "Two Dashing Horses". Seattle Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  17. ^ "Brooklyn Museum archive for Nakayama Tadashi – Japanese artist, 1927-2014". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  18. ^ "Cheerful Afternoon - Tadashi Nakayama". FAMSF Search the Collections. 2015-05-08. Archived from the original on 2019-05-26. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  19. ^ Harvard. "From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Horses in the Pasture (Hōba)". harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  20. ^ "Crane". art.honolulumuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-01-08.