Abstract Composition 1957 20x22

Year1957

Hand SignedSigned on the Lower Right 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with Plexiglass 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID146385

Taro Yamamoto - United States

Art Brokerage: Taro Yamamoto American Artist: b. 1919-2004. Taro Yamamoto (October 29, 1919 – June 12, 1994) belonged to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and others became a leading art movement of the post World War II era. Yamamoto was born October 29, 1919 in Hollywood, California. He lived in Japan from age six to age nineteen. Yamamoto served in the U.S. Army during World War II, from November 7, 1941 to February 23, 1946. Yamamoto studied: 1949 at the Santa Monica City College; 1950-1952 at The Art Students League of New York, under Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Morris Kantor, Byron Browne and Vaclav Vytlacil; 1951-1953 at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in New York. Yamamoto in 1952 won the John Sloan Memorial Fellowship at The Art Students League of New York. In 1953, under the Edward G. McDowell Traveling Fellowship went to Europe. Yamamoto died in 1994. Listings wanted.