Girl with an Accordion
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Girl with an Accordion, 1941, oil on canvas, Museum Purchase: Ella M. Hirsch Fund, © artist or other rights holder, 41.12
This work is on view.
- Title
Girl with an Accordion
- Artist
- Date
1941
- Medium
oil on canvas
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
49 1/8 in x 40 1/8 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature: Yasuo Kuniyoshi, brushed, upper left
- Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary Art; American Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
painting
- Culture
American
Japanese
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Ella M. Hirsch Fund
- Accession Number
41.12
- Copyright
© artist or other rights holder
- Terms
- Location
With a unique whimsy, Kuniyoshi used somber, earthy colors to create compositions rich with fantasy and symbolism. His figural paintings often combined animal and still-life elements from nineteenth-century folk art, traditional Japanese motifs, and modernist European and American styles. With precise draftsmanship, he used decorative imagery and real-world themes, injecting them with a tone of moodiness. After 1930, he introduced luminous blues to his paintings, adding brilliance and translucence. He created a number of portraits of women, each highly individualistic, like Girl with an Accordion.
- Exhibitions
2023 Throughlines: Connections in the Collection Portland Art Museum