Baby and Toy Cow
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
With its imaginative arrangement of an infant, a cow pull toy, and other objects of personal significance, this drawing constitutes a symbolic portrait of the artist, who developed an idiosyncratic style combining Eastern and Western influences. Here the tipped-up perspective and asymmetrical composition suggest a Japanese aesthetic, while the figural distortions are indebted to American and European modernism. In the early 1920s, before turning to painting, Yasuo Kuniyoshi embraced the traditional Eastern practice of ink drawing, yet he manipulated the medium in unconventional ways, creating a range of textures and tones through the varied application of broad washes and delicate lines.
Caption
Yasuo Kuniyoshi American, born Japan, 1889–1953. Baby and Toy Cow, 1921. Black ink on off-white, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper, Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 7/8 in. (36.8 x 27.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal, 1992.11.22. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1992.11.22_IMLS_PS3.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Baby and Toy Cow
Date
1921
Medium
Black ink on off-white, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper
Classification
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 7/8 in. (36.8 x 27.6 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower center in ink: "KUNIYOSHI 21."
Credit Line
Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal
Accession Number
1992.11.22
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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