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Shizuo NISHIZAWA  -  1912-1997      

Shizuo Nishizawa

Shizuo Nishizawa 1912-1997

Shizuo Nishizawa was born in the old port town of Kobe in Hyogo Prefecture. In 1963 the artist received a prize at the Exhibition of the Japan Print Association. He made several print series with Bunraku (Japanese puppet theater) subjects and a series titled Hana - flowers. In 1967 Shizuo Nishizawa was invited to the International Print Exhibition in Pistoia in Italy. In 1983 the Nobel Prize Foundation in Sweden commissioned the artist a commemorative print for the Nobel laureat of literature, Kawabata Yasunari.
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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