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Kiyoshi SAITO  -  1907-1997      Highly Appreciated in the West

Kiyoshi Saito is one of the best known modern Japanese artists in the Western world. He had started with a sign painting business before he went to Tokyo in the 1930s to study Western style painting. In the late 1930s and the 1940s Kiyoshi Saito began to work seriously in woodblock technique. His great time came after world war II, when he won prizes at the International print exhibitions in Sao Paulo and Ljubljana. From the 1950s on the artist exhibited and partly lived in the U.S.A. and in Europe.
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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