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Glass - Shadow Abstraction #2
c. 1930s
(Japanese, 1897–1966)
Image: 19.6 x 27.5 cm (7 11/16 x 10 13/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1992.335
Location: Not on view
Description
During the 1930s Shikanosuke Yagaki pursued a vocation in banking and an avocation in photography, an interest begun in his teens. A member of a number of photography clubs and associations, he enthusiastically absorbed the latest Western trends and ideas in contemporary photography, including the use of strong contrast, elevated points of view, dynamic angles, spontaneity, and reliance on common subject matter. This simple still life of two glasses of water reveals the artist's keen interest in rendering abstracted shapes and nuances of light. Yagaki's work is one of the few existing expressions of the dynamic photography practiced in Japan during the 1930s. Since he lived in Kyoto, an ancient capital of Japan that survived World War II, his work was not lost in the bombings that destroyed an estimated 80% of the art created during this productive period.- Family of the artist, Kyoto
- Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79. Mentioned: p.69 www.jstor.orgCleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 400
- CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art."Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).CMA, January 28 - March 15, 1992: "Selected Acquisitions," CMA Bulletin, 80 (February 1993), p. 69, no. 139.
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