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HIRSHHORN MUSEUM 920 

YASUO KUNIYOSHI (1893-1953)

Born Okayama, Japan, September 1, 18[[strikethrough]] 93 [[/strikethrough]]89. Emigrated to the United States, 1906. Attended night classes, Los Angeles School of Art and Design, 1907-10. Moved to New York, 1910. Studied, briefly New York: National Academy of Design, [[strikethrough]] 1910 [[/strikethrough]]; and Henri School of Art, [[strikethrough]] briefly [[/strikethrough]] 1910; Independent School of Art, 1914-16; The Art Students League of New York, with Kenneth Hayes Miller, 1916-1920. Group exhibition, New York, 1917: Society of Independent Artists, first annual exhibition; ("Paintings and Sculptures by Modernists',") Penguin Club. Given [[strikethrough]] room [[/strikethrough]]) apartment by Hamilton Easter Field in Brooklyn, New York, [[strikethrough]] 19 [[/strikethrough]] - , and studio in Ogunquit, Maine, 1919. [[strikethrough]] summers, 1918, 1919,[[/strikethrough]] Continued to spend summers in Ogunquit, 1920-24, 1926. Supported himself chiefly by photographing works of art, 1920-25. One-man shows, The Daniel Gallery, New York, 1922-28, 1930. [[right margin]] none in 1927 [[/right margin]] Visited Europe, 1925, 1928. Salons of America, New York: director, 1922-38; corresponding secretary, 1929-38. Hamilton Easter Field Foundation, ?- Ogunquit: co-founder with Robert Laurent and others, founded? 1929; corresponding secretary, 1929-1938. Included in "Paintings by Nineteen Living Americans," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1929-30. Summered in Woodstock, New York, from 1929. Visited Japan, 1931. One-man show[[strikethrough]]s [[/strikethrough]]): in Toyko and Osaka, Japan,