Tadasky, Tadasuke Kuwayama, Japanese, born 1935, oil painting on canvas depicting an Op Art composition, B 157, 1964. Signed, titled, and dated on the backside. Framed. An original paper label of Kootz Gallery, on the backside. Tadasky is known for Op art minialist painting. A Japanese American artist known for strong color geometric op art painting and for ceramic art, Tadasuke Kuwayama has lived in New York state since emigrating to America from Japan 1961, working both in New York City and upstate in Ellenville and Napanoch. His work has been exhibited at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo and the Albany State Museum. One of a kind artwork.
Tadasuke Kuwayama (American/Japanese, b. 1935) Untitled (B-149), 1964 acrylic on canvas signed Tadasky, titled and dated (verso) 15 x 15 inches. Property from the Solon A. Ellison Revocable Trust, Placitas, New Mexico Provenance: Kootz Gallery, New York The Member Gallery, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Tadasky (Tadasuke Kuwayama) Untitled B-150 1964 acrylic on canvas 15.25 h × 15.25 w in (39 × 39 cm) Signed, titled and dated to verso 'Tadasky 1964 #B-150'. Provenance: Kootz Gallery, New York | Private Collection This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey. Condition of the item is not included in this description. Condition reports are available from Wright upon request. Wright strongly recommends that you review a condition report for each item on which you plan to bid. Email condition@wright20.com to request a condition report.
ARTIST: Tadasky (Japanese,American, born 1935) NAME: B-119 YEAR: 1964 MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 15 x 15 inches / 37 x 37 cm FRAME SIZE: 16 x 16 inches / 40 x 40 cm SIGNATURE: on verso NAME VARIANTS: Tadasky Kuwayama, Tadasuke Kuwayama PROVENANCE: Kootz Gallery NY (has original gallery label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting SKU#: 116216 WARRANTY: 7 days returns accepted if item doesn't match description US Shipping $60 + insurance. Tadasky (Japanese-American, born 1935) Tadasky (Tadasuke Kuwayama) was born in Nagoya, Japan. He painted since childhood, but as a youngster was steered toward his father's business of shrine-building. This led him to study applied engineering at university in Tokyo and learn the craft of miyadaiku (shrine carpenters) in the family factory Tadasky taught himself about modern and Western art from books. His eyes were opened to the power of abstraction through the work of Josef Albers and other Bauhaus artists; art made up of simple squares and other geometric elements was essentially prohibited in the Japanese art tradition. In Japan, Tadasky experimented with many forms of art, including representational painting, but by the time he applied for scholarships to the United States, he was experimenting with simple circles in larger constructions. Tadasky came to the United States in 1961 on a scholarship to study at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Tadasky's first stop was New York where he decided to stay. He soon won a modern art scholarship competition at the Art Students League and the prize of free tuition enabled him to stay in New York and rent a studio loft in which he worked. At this time, Tadasky sustained himself financially with carpentry work. Later he transferred to the art school of the Brooklyn Museum after Tadasky impressed the director enough to get a scholarship to work entirely in his own studio in Manhattan. In the early 1960s, Tadasky began to focus on compositions of concentric circles that trigger optical color interaction and explore sensory stimulation. They are highly calculated and precisely created, consisting of thin, pulsating, vibrantly colored lines that seem to whirl and radiate outward from the center. Shortly after arriving in New York, Tadasky set out to create tools that would aid him to create the perfect rings he envisioned. Through painstaking solitary experimentation in his studio, Tadasky developed a special wheel for his circles and adapted it into a drum for vertical lines. For brushwork, he used traditional Japanese brushes best suited to the fine detail of his paintings. Philip Johnson was among Tadasky's earliest supporters, purchasing a painting in 1964 and introducing Tadasky's work to curators. In 1964 the Museum of Modern Art purchased A-101, 1964, as well as B-171, 1964, for its permanent collection. A-101 appeared in the December 11, 1964 edition of Life magazine in an article titled "Op Art: A dizzying fascinating style of painting." Other museums soon followed, including the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Seymour Knox purchased 3 works); the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Phoenix Art Museum. Tadasky was included in the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition "The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture in 1966," which traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, and the Milwaukee Art Museum among others. In Japan, Tadasky's work was acquired by the Ohara Museum of Art in Kurashiki, the Nagoya City Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Nagaoka, as well as the Gutai Pinacotheca in Osaka. Private collectors included Harry Abrams, Frederick Weisman, David Rockefeller, and James Michener. Sam Kootz visited Tadasky's studio loft in 1964 and offered him a solo exhibition at the Kootz Gallery. Tadasky had his first solo exhibition at the prestigious gallery in January 1965 and again in October of that year. Tadasky went on to have solo exhibitions in Japan in 1966 at the Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo and at the Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka followed by two solo exhibitions at Fischbach Gallery in 1967 and 1969. In 1969 Tadasky and Gene Davis had a joint exhibition at the Closson's Art Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. Tadasky participated in seminal Op Art exhibitions including the Museum of Modern Art's The Responsive Eye and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's Kinetic and Optic Art Today both in 1965. He was included in the annual Shusakuten exhibition in Tokyo in 1966, and in the Japanese National Museum of Art's exhibition "Japanese Artists Abroad" the same year. Tadasky's bright, multicolored compositions were an instant success with the public; in 1968, Springbok Editions manufactured a circular jigsaw titled "Whirling Disks by Tadasky." Tadasky's work was strongly featured in the Columbus Museum of Art's 2007 exhibition "Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s" with seven works illustrated in the exhibition catalogue. Tadasky was also included in "Extreme Abstraction" at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in 2005. Tadasky was recently included in the exhibition "Resounding Spirit: Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1960s" in 2008 organized by the Gibson Gallery at SUNY Potsdam which traveled to the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas and the Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada. Tadasky's work can currently be seen in "Adapting and Adopting: Waves of Change as East Encounters West' at the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, Florida. The Museum of Modern Art recently lent its painting A101, 1964 to "Luminous! Dynamic! Space and Vision in Art from Today Back to 1913" at the Grand Palais in Paris, April 9 - July 2, 2013. B115, 1964 was recently acquired at the Museo de Arte ContemporГЎneo Buenos Aires in Argentina.
DESCRIPTION: Tadasuke Kuwayama (Japanese-American, b. 1935) acrylic painting on canvas. Titled E-148 (Textured Red and Blue). Signed, titled and dated 1969 to verso. Labeled: "D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc, New York" on verso. Framed. CIRCA: 1969 ORIGIN: Japan DIMENSIONS: 50" (127cm) x 50" (127cm)+ 1" (2.5cm) frame. CONDITION: Great condition. See lot description for details on item condition. More detailed condition requests can be obtained via email (info@akibaantiques.com) or SMS (305) 333-4134. Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Akiba Antiques shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.
Tadasuke Kuwayama (Japanese-American, b. 1935) acrylic painting on canvas. Titled E-148 (Textured Red and Blue). Signed, titled and dated 1969 to verso. Holds D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc, New York label to verso. Measures 50" (127cm) x 50" (127cm)+ 1" (2.5cm) frame.
Tadasky Japanese/American, b. 1935 B-169, 1964 Signed Tadasky, dated 1964 and inscribed #B-169 on the reverse Acrylic on canvas 15 x 15 inches (38.1 x 38.1 cm) C
TRIPTYCH BY TADAAKI KUWAYAMA (JAPANESE-AMERICAN, B. 1932). Enamel on canvas, signed and dated verso "Tadaaki Kuwayama '68." Three color field canvases framed together, one red flanked by two white. Label verso: Henri Gallery, Washington, DC. Framed 59.75"h. 28.5"w.
Tadasuke Kuwayama, genannt Tadasky, 1935 Nagoya, Japan, lebt und arbeitet seit 1961 in New York City in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, fortzusetzen, doch der Künstler entschloss sich, in New York zu bleiben. Um sich seinen Lebensunterhalt zu finanzieren, arbeitete er zunächst weiter als Zimmermann, es gelang ihm jedoch, den Direktor des Brooklyn Museums von sich zu überzeugen und ein weiteres Stipendium zu erlangen. Ab den frühen 1960er Jahren fokussierte sich Tadasky auf Kompositionen mit konzentrischen Kreisen, die sich aus dem Zentrum nach außen zu bewegen scheinen. Hierzu entwickelte er eigene Techniken, um die konzentrischen Ringe in perfekter Weise auf die Leinwand zu bannen. Schon ab 1964 begann das Museum of Modern Art Werke des Op Art Künstlers zu kaufen. Andere Museen wie das Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, das Phoenix Art Museum und die Albright-Knox Art Gallery folgten. 1966, dem Jahr, in dem das vorliegende Gemälde entstanden ist, hatte der Künstler seine erste Soloausstellung in der Tokyo Gallery in Japan. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschränkt sich auf die Farben Schwarz und Weiß, wobei die konzentrischen Kreise gegen schwarze, sich an den Längsseiten befindende Flächen zu drängen scheinen, die ihrerseits wieder durch weiße Quadrate in den Ecken des Gemäldes aufgefangen werden. Diese beruhigten Randzonen stehen im Kontrast zu der drängenden Bewegung des großen zentralen Kreises, wodurch sich Bewegung und Stille die Waage halten. D-1041, 1966 Acryl auf Leinwand. 116 x 116 cm. Verso betitelt, signiert und datiert. Gerahmt. Der japanisch-amerikanische Künstler Tadasky trat zunächst in die Fußstapfen seiner Familie und ließ sich zum Zimmermann für Schreine ausbilden. Er zeigte jedoch früh eine Begeisterung für Kunst und setzte sich noch in Japan durch Bücher mit der modernen und europäischen Kunst auseinander. Ein Stipendium ermöglichte es ihm 1961 seine Studien an der Cranbrook Academy of Art Leinwand leicht fleckig. (1020651) (12) Tadasuke Kuwayama, called “Tadasky”, 1935 Nagoya, Japan lives and works in New York City since 1961 D-1041, 1966 Acrylic on canvas. 116 x 1160 cm. Verso signed and dated with title. The present work's colour palette is restricted to black and white, whereby concentric circles appear to push against black areas located at the long sides, which in turn are intercepted by white squares in the painting's corners. The calm border areas contrast with the urgent movement of the large central circle, thus balancing motion and stillness. Canvas with minor stains
Tadaaki Kuwayama Untitled Japan/USA, 1968 acrylic on canvas with steel strips 59.75 h x 28.5 w inches Signed and dated to verso 'Tadaaki Kuwayama 68'. Provenance: Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva | Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich | Private collection, Paris
TADASUKE KUWAYAMA (b. 1935): T-30 Oil on canvas, 1964, signed 'Tadasky' on the reverse, with label from Kootz Gallery, NY. 15 x 15 in., 16 x 16 in. (frame). Estate of Holland Roberts Melson, Jr, New York
TADASKY (TADASUKE KUWAYAMA) American/Japanese (b. 1935) Untitled oil on canvas, signed, n. D-161 and dated 1967 on the reverse 15 x 15 Provenance: Private collection, New Jersey.
TADASKY (TADASUKE KUWAYAMA) American/Japanese (b. 1935) "D-156" (Vertical Red, Orange, Yellow) acrylic on canvas, signed, titled and dated 1967 on the reverse. 70 x 55 Provenance: The artist; Fischbach Gallery, New York; Private collection, New York.
