My Man by Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Art Institute of Chicago

My Man

Yasuo Kuniyoshi · 1943

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889–1953), 1943; consigned to The Downtown Gallery, New York, by 1944 [lent to Chicago 1944]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1944.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>55th Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings</em>, June 8–Aug. 20, 1944, cat. 246.
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, <em>Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Retrospective Exhibition</em>, Mar. 27–May 9, 1948, cat. 80.
  • Chicago, University of Illinois, for Navy Pier exhibition, Feb. 14– Mar. 14, 1949.
  • Boston University Art Gallery, <em>Exhibition of the Works by Yasuo Kuniyoshi</em>, Feb. 24–Mar. 18, 1961.
  • Gainesville, University of Florida, <em>A Special Loan Retrospective of Works by Yasuo Kuniyoshi</em>, Feb. 7–Mar. 30, 1969; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, May 9–June 29, 1969, cat. 27.
  • Austin, University of Texas Art Museum, <em>Yasuo Kuniyoshi Retrospective</em>, Feb. 9–Mar. 23, 1975; Madison, Wisconsin, Elvehjem Art Center, Apr. 13–May 18, 1975; Athens, Georgia Museum of Art, June 8–July 13, 1975; Nagoya, Japan, Aichi Cultural Center, Aug. 8–c. Aug. 30, 1975; Tokyo, Japan, Bridgestone Museum, Sept. 8–c.Oct. 15, 1975; Kobe, Japan, Hyogo Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Nov. 3–Dec. 20, 1975; Ontario, Windsor Art Gallery, Jan. 4–Feb. 8, 1976.
  • Norfolk, Virginia, Chrysler Museum, <em>The Myth of the Sailor: The Creation of an American Demigod</em>, Jan. 20– Mar. 13, 1983, cat. p. 44.
  • Annandale–on–Hudson, New York, <em>Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Artist as Photographer</em>, 1983; West Palm Beach, Norton Gallery and School of Art, cat.
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, <em>Yasuo Kuniyoshi</em>, Nov. 1–Dec. 24, 1989; Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Jan. 5–Feb. 12, 1990; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Feb. 20–Apr. 1, 1990, cat. 79.
  • Tokyo, ASAHI Shimbun, <em>Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago</em>, Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994, Yokohama Museum of Art Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994, p. 175.
  • Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, <em>Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008</em>, Jan. 31–May 31, 2015; San Diego Museum of Art, July 17–Oct. 18, 2015; Brooklyn Museum, Nov. 20, 2015–Mar. 13, 2016; San Antonio, McNay Art Museum, May 11–Sept. 11, 2016, cat. 93.

Literature

Published references

  • Tom Wolf, <em>The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi</em>, exh. cat. (Smithsonian American Art Museum/GILES, 2015), ill.

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