Kimura, Risaburo: 1924 ( Japan)

The Artist:

Risaburo was born in Yokosuka City Japan in 1924. He was educated in Japan graduating first from Yokohama University in 1947 where he studied education, and second from Hosei University in Tokyo in 1954 where he studied Philosophy. In 1964 Kimura moved to New York City.

Kimura has won prizes and enjoyed one person shows in world venues including: Tokyo, Yokohama, and Osaka, Japan; National Prints Exhibition in the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Oklahoma Art Center National Exhibition; Dulin National Competition in Tennessee; Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan; Brooklyn Arts Center, New York; and SAGA Fifty Years of American Printmaking, New York.

Other venues of premier exhibitions include: the Japanese Art Festival in the Museum of Cherrusky, Paris and in Brazil and Italy; Trends in Contemporary Japanese Art at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan; Biennial of Prints in Tokyo, Japan; Modern Prints of Japan in Brussels, Belgium; Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City; and the Japanese Arts Festival at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Kimura's work is collected in permanent museum collections including: Oklahoma Art Center; Long Island University; The Museum of Modern Art in New York; The Brooklyn Museum; Kyoto City Hall, Japan; I.B.M. World Trade Corporations Headquarters N.Y.; Cincinnati Art Museum in Ohio; Philadelphia Art Museum in Pennsylvania; National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto Japan; Museo La Tertulia Cali in Colombia, South America; The Bank of America in New York; and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The Art:

The art below is from the suite, Great Cities of the World. This suite of twenty pieces was created with a combination of plates and stones; each graphic is a combination of silk screen and lithograph. All drawing and hand cut screens were made by the artist. And, the creation of the suite took Kimura nearly three years of continuous production. The paper size of each print is 30" x 24", and the edition size is 250. The Great Cities shown below are: Geneva and Sydney. Other cities represented in the suite are: Athens; Bangkok; Berlin; Buenos Aires; Hong King; London; Moscow; New York; Oslo; Paris; Peking; Prague; Rio; Tokyo; Venice; and Vienna.

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Kimura72 Risaburo Kimura. Geneva, from the suite Great Cities of the World. 153/250. Lithograph and Serigraph. The print is made of twelve colors and is printed from four plates and eight screens. The paper size is 30" x 24". The artwork was acquired in 1978. The artwork is signed and numbered in pencil. For more information about the suite see the paragraph above. The artwork, margins and art surface, is in pristine condition. Close-Up $1,250.

Kimura82 Risaburo Kimura. Sydney, from the suite Great Cities of the World. 244/250. Lithograph and Serigraph. The print is made of twelve colors and is printed from four plates and eight screens. The paper size is 30" x 24". The artwork was acquired in 1978. The artwork is signed and numbered in pencil. For more information about the suite see the paragraph above. The artwork, margins and art surface, is in pristine condition. Close-Up $1,400.

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See: Amarger: Great World Newspapers.