On View
Not on viewObject number2009.39
Association A
Artist
Reiji Kimura
(Japanese, 1926-)
Date1963
Mediumcolor lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 15 3/8 × 11 1/2 in. (39.1 × 29.2 cm)
image: 12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 22.9 cm)
image: 12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 22.9 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlotte Collins from the Charles and Charlotte Collins Collection
Exhibition History"A Passion for Collecting: Prints of the 1960s and '70s from the Collins Collection," KIA Galleries 2&5 (Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Charles H. MacNider Museum of Art, Mason City, IA (June 24 - August 20, 2016).
"Sosaku Hanga: Creative Printmaking in Japan," Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Joy Light Gallery of Asian Art (June 12 - September 5, 2021)
"Drawn to Abstraction," Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA (August 25 - November 1, 2020).Label TextThe subtle gradation of Reiji Kimura's grays should be calming, yet the underlying, scratching, gestural motions induce a sense of frenetic confusion. These circles and squares present an irregular geometry within an asymmetrical composition.
Images by Reiji Kimura and other Japanese artists were included in an important exhibition of avant-garde Japanese work that traveled from San Francisco to New York City in 1965-66.
