Untitled

Ray YoshidaWW-1955-138661

1955·Graphite frottage and colored pencils on ivory wove paper·43.1 × 35.5 cm (17 × 14 in.)

<p>Yoshida spent two years at the University of Hawaii in the late 1940s prior to earning his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 1953. After attending graduate school at Syracuse University, he returned to Chicago in the early 1960s to teach at SAIC, where he stayed for four decades. Yoshida experimented with screenprinting, sometimes using unorthodox methods. This work, which shares many aspects of the artist’s screenprints, is characterized by playful forms that were created by rubbing over torn paper placed beneath the sheet.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1955
Medium: Graphite frottage and colored pencils on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: 43.1 × 35.5 cm (17 × 14 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Ray Yoshida

Artist

Ray Yoshida

Painting

Raymond "Ray" Kakuo Yoshida was an American artist known for his paintings and collages, and for his contributions as a teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1959 to 2005. He was an important mentor of the Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who specialized in distorted, emotional representational art.

Kapaa, HI, USA

Full artist profile →