YAMAGUCHI TAKEO

• Takeo Yamaguchi, Western-style painter and pioneer of abstract painting in Japan, won the Excellence Prize at the First Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan in 1954 and the Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize in 1962, the "American Abstract Art Exhibition" at the Riverside Museum in New York in 1954, the "Sao Paulo Biennial" in 1954, and the "Biennial of Abstract Art" in 1956. His works were exhibited at international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale, the 2nd Guggenheim Prize Art Exhibition (Guggenheim Museum) in 1958, and the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1963. (Omitted) Major Collections: Nerima Art Museum; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Kagoshima City Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art; National Museum of Art, Osaka.