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Kunihiro AMANO  -  born 1929      Collections of Moma and Washington Library

Kunihiro Amano was born in Hirosaki. He is a self-taught artist, who participated in all national (Tokyo) and International Print Biennales. His woodblock prints are dominated by abstract, geometrical forms with sometimes erotic references in strong colors. Early works were influenced by Shiko Munakata. Prints by Kunihiro Amano are in the collections of many international art museums like the Moma in New York or the Washington Library of Congress.
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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