SosakuHanga.net    創作版画      
presented by Saru Gallery           


Periods
  1900-1910
  1910-1920
  1920-1930
  1930-1940
  1940-1950
  1950-1960
  1960-1970
  1970-present

More
  Essays
  References
  Contact us
  Conditions of Sale
  Gallery of Sold Prints

Biography Ueda, Gagyû (上田, 臥牛) (1919 - 1999)

Ueda Gagyû, also known as Ueda Eiichi, was born in Hyôgo prefecture in 1919. He was trained as a Japanese-style painter and graduated at the Kawabata Painting School in 1941. He won a prize for his work at the Seventh Japanese Modern Art Exhibit in 1966. He founded an artists' association called "62 layers" in 1961 and was a member of this group until 1969. His book on traditional Japanese painting, written in 1980, is titled "The Techniques and Process of Nihonga Painting". He is mainly known as a painter and started making woodblock prints as a way to gain greater insight into Japanese-style painting.




See more prints from this artist!

Back