Chosei MIWA  -  1901-1983      

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Chosei Miwa was born in Niigata prefecture. He had graduated from the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting and was a student of Domoto Insho. The artist worked mainly as a painter and was active with the state-controlled exhibitions Teiten and Nitten. Chosei Miwa made woodblock prints of Kyoto scenes in modern style and kacho-e (birds and flowers).
Catalog Chosei Miwa 1901-1983 - artelino

Chu ASAI  -  1856-1907      Modern Meiji Artist

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Chu Asai was a modern Meiji artist. He had studied in Paris from 1899 to 1902 where he saw modern European avantgarde art. Back in Japan he taught at the Kyoto City School of Fine Arts and Crafts. Ishii Hakutei was one of his students.
Catalog Chu Asai 1856-1907 - artelino

Clifton KARHU  -  1927-2007      Revered American in Kyoto

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The art of traditional Japanese woodblock printing seems to have a magic force of attraction to Western artists. Clifton Karhu has become one of the most successful contemporary Western artists working in Japanese woodblock style. Clifton Karhu lives in Kyoto in Japan, where he is a kind of local celebrity.
Catalog Clifton Karhu 1927-2007 - artelino

Cyrus BALDRIDGE  -  1889-1975      Peking Scenes Published by Watanabe

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Cyrus Leroy Baldridge was an American illustrator, painter, printmaker and cosmopolitan. In the 1920s he had travelled widely in the East, North Africa and Europe. For collectors of Japanese prints he became known as the artist of several woodblock prints published by Watanabe in 1925 with colorful scenes from Peking.
Catalog Cyrus Baldridge 1889-1975 - artelino

Dai HONGWEI  -  born 1986      Emerging Chinese Artist

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Dai Hongwei was born in 1986. Currently, he is a second year student in Design Art College at Yunnan University.
Catalog Dai Hongwei born 1986 - artelino

Dai JIA  -  born 1985      Emerging Artist

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Dai Jia was born in 1985 in Jiangxi province. In 2003, she began her printmaking studies at the printmaking department of CNAFA, Hangzhou. In 2007, she attended the exhibition of Graduates' Prints, and "88352 Print Exhibition for Seven Young Printmakers". Her teacher in woodcut printmaking is the great master Zhang Minjie.
Catalog Dai Jia born 1985 - artelino

Daimon KINOSHITA  -  born 1946      Modern Sumo Wrestler Series

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Daimon Kinoshita is from Hokkaido prefecture and used the funny pen name "Mon-Ami" for his works as illustrator. Since 1980 he has been active as an ukiyo-e artist. In 1985 the Nippon Sumo Association decided to revitalize the old Sumo nishiki-e tradition and commissioned a series of sumo wrestler ukiyo-e to Daimon Kinoshita at the occasion of the opening of the National Sports Arena in Ryogoku.
Catalog Daimon Kinoshita born 1946 - artelino

Daisaburo NAKAMURA  -  1893-1947      

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The University of Sydney list a print by Daisaburo Namamura from 1936 in the inventory of their print collection.
Catalog Daisaburo Nakamura 1893-1947 - artelino

Dan WENJIE  -  born 1986      

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Dan Wenjie was born in 1986 in Jingzhou city of Hubei province. In 2003 she began her printmaking studies at Hubei Art Academy, Printmaking Department. In 2006, she began to study how to make lithographs with Li Qi.
Catalog Dan Wenjie born 1986 - artelino

Daniel KELLY  -  born 1947      Student of Tokuriki Tomikichiro

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Daniel Kelly was born in 1947 in the state Idaho, U.S.A.. He went to Japan and became a student of master printmaker Timikichiro Tokuriki in Kyoto. Daniel Kelly has remained in Kyoto since then and has become a famous artist himself. He has worked in woodblock and in different mixed media techniques - usually in large sizes. Art works by Daniel Kelly have been collected by the Metropolitan Museum in New York, The British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and The Allen Memorial Art Museum.
Catalog Daniel Kelly born 1947 - artelino