Kaoru Kawano Prints

Kaoru Kawano (1916-1965). Japanese. Woodblock prints on woven paper. Numerous framed and unframed prints available in addtion to those pictured. First work was accepted for the Japan Print Association exhibited in 1944, but he was drafted and then taken as a prisoner of war and held in Siberia. Began to exhibit again in 1949. In 1952, he began to exhibit with the Kokugakai, and in 1954 won a Kokugakai award. Represented at a serigraph exhibition in New York and other exhibitions from Chicago to Yugoslavia and elsewhere. Kawano was a leading artist in the Sosaku hanga movement which brought Japan's centuries old traditional medium of wood block printing into the modern age. Member, Japan Print Association. Associate Member, Kokugakai. "Born in Otaru, Hokkaido, studied at Kawabata art school and became one of the leading Sosaku hanga artists (known because they designed, cut and printed their own blocks). By 1960 had major shows in the US (Seattle, New Yok and Chicago)." ---Selected Woodcuts, Jack Leissring