Matsubara Naoko RCA (松原 直子, born 1937 in Tokushima) is a celebrated Japanese-Canadian print-maker.
Matsubara Naoko | |
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.jpg) Naoko Matsubara presents here mural "Chromatic Convergence" (2018) | |
| Born | 1937 |
| Nationality | Japanese Canadian |
| Education | Kyoto University of Applied Arts in 1960; MFA in the School of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh |
| Known for | graphic artist |
Life and work
editMatsubara graduated from the Kyoto University of Applied Arts in 1960. She then pursued an MFA in the School of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on a Fulbright Travel Grant, and since then has traveled extensively and taught at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn—a rare distinction for a Japanese woman. She also studied one year at the Royal College of Art, London. Currently she lives and works in Oakville, Canada.
Naoko Matsubara’s father was the chief priest in a Shinto shrine in Kyoto. Shrines and temples became one of the major themes of Matsubara’s works. Naoko Matsubara’s style is influenced by her teacher Munakata Shiko (1903–1975), who worked in the mingei (folk art) tradition. Her works are part of the collections of many museums around the world such as the Portland Art Museum,[1] the Harvard Art Museums,[2] the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,[3] the Carnegie Museum of Art,[4] the Detroit Institute of Art,[5] the University of Michigan Museum of Art,[6] the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art,[7] the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,[8] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[9] the Albright-Knox Art Gallery,[10] the Yale University Art Gallery,[11] the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Albertina in Vienna, the British Museum in London,[12] the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[13] the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress in Washington, the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts, the Haifa Museum in Israel and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. She was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[14] In 2024, she will have her first Art Gallery of Ontario solo exhibition with 20 woodcut prints, anchored by Tagasode (2014), a monumental 2 meter long single-sheet print which is the culmination of Matsubara's printmaking career.[15]
Naoko Matsubara's sister is the novelist Hisako Matsubara, they collaborated on the publication of Japanese tale Taketori Monogatari in German. Naoko did the illustrations, while her sister did the actual translation and the commentary.
Publications
edit- Matsubara, Naoko. Boston Impressions. Woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara. Text by Sinclair Hitchings. Barre Publications, 1970.
- Matsubara, Naoko. Kyoto Woodcuts. Tokyo, New York: Kodansha International; New York: Distributed in the United States by Kodansha International/USA, through Harper & Row, 1978.
- Matsubara, Naoko. In Praise of Trees. NY, London: Mosaic Press, 1985.
- Matsubara, Naoko. Tibetan Sky. Ontario: Bayeux Arts Inc., 1997.
- Matsubara, Naoko. Tales of Days Gone By. Tuttle Publishing, 2004.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Matsubara Naoko". portlandartmuseum.us. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ Harvard. "From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Hagoromo (Feathered Robe)". harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "Naoko Matsubara". FAMSF Search the Collections. 21 September 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "CMOA Collection". collection.cmoa.org. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "Walden Pond". www.dia.org. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "Exchange: Willow". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "Winter Serenity | Collections Online". artmuseum.indiana.edu. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "Naoko Matsubara, "Wind for "Solitude"" (n.d.)". PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 2 July 2016. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "Sanjūsangendō | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "War God | Albright-Knox". www.albrightknox.org. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "Xylon 21 | Yale University Art Gallery". artgallery.yale.edu. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "print | British Museum". The British Museum. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "Weeping Beech". collections.mfa.org. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
- ^ "Article". ago.ca. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. 14 March 2024. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
Additional sources
edit- "Images and biography" at Abbozzo Gallery web site
- Chika Okeke-Agulu, Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria (Duke University Press, 2015), p. 181.
- Helen Merritt, Nanako Yamada: Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints. 1900–1975. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu HI 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X, p. 86
- Norman Tollman, Mary Tollman: Collecting Modern Japanese Prints: Then & Now. Tuttle Publishing, 2013, ISBN 9781462903740, pp. 222-224