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Ansei UCHIMA  -  1921-2000      

Ansei Uchima

Ansei Uchima 1921-2000

Ansei Uchima was born in Stockton, California. The work of Ansei Uchima reflects a complex fusion of Western and Eastern artistic traditions. Uchima traveled to Japan at age nineteen, and after World War II studied painting and traditional Japanese printmaking. While he was a translater for Oliver Statler for his famous book about the Sosaku Hanga artists, he became interested in Sosaku Hanga.
He returned to USA in 1959. Uchima was an esteemed woodblock print artist, painter, and fine arts professor, as well as Emeritus faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College, where he taught from 1962 to 1982. Uchima also taught at Columbia University to 1982. He received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1962 and 1970, and his work is included in permanent collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, National Gallery of Art, British Museum among many others.
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Literature sources used for artist biographies:

• Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako, "Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints 1900-1975", University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X
• Lane, Richard, "Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print", Fribourg, 1978, ISBN 0-914427-54-7
• Laurance, P.Roberts, "A Dictionary of Japanese Artists", John Weatherhill Inc., New York, 1976
• Frances Blakemore "Who is Who in Modern Japanese Prints", John Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1975. ISBN 0-8348-0101-9
• Annual CWAJ catalogs