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Kosuke KIMURA - born 1936
Kosuke Kimura was born in 1936 in Osaka. He graduated from Kyoto Art College where he had studied nihon-ga, traditional Japanese painting. In 1968 he began to show his prints at renowned art exhibitions. In 1970 he received the Richard Gainsborough Memorial Award at the second international British Prient Biennale. In several following international print biennales he received more prizes for prints and sculptures.
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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
