Matsumi Kanemitsu Limited Edition Original Lithograph, Published by MoMA 1967
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Mitsumi (Mike) born 1922, in Ogden, Utah, to Japanese parents. In the postwar years Kanemitsu moved to New York and studied at the Art Students League with the Japanese painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi. He began to associate with the practitioners of the growing New York school -- Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock, among others -- who inspired his work in black-and-white watercolors. By 1960 he was exhibiting at galleries in New York and Los Angeles, and in 1962 his work traveled with the Museum of Modern Art show "14 Americans." Image Size 23 x 30.5 cms (9 x 12 inches)Sheet Size 23 x 30.5 cms (9 x 12 inches) This Lithograph comes from "In Memory of My Feelings", published by MoMA in 1967 as a limited edition portfolio of 2500 copies. It is printed on Mohawk, Superfine Smooth, by Crafton Graphic Company. These prints are not reproductions and are included in many of the the artists' Catalogue Raisonne. Mary Corlett writing in the Roy Lichtenstein Catalogue Raisonne says: 'Each artist was given a copy of the text of the appropriate poem, in galley-proof form with page layouts, along with a sheet of plastic, called Copyrite, on which to draw.The translucent plastic could be placed directly over the layout to execute the drawing. Plates were then made from the drawings on plastic.The book which includes approximately 46 photolithography,
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