Artwork
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953
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content: Yasuo Kuniyoshi papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.8 Linear Feet (Boxes 8, 14, 16, OVs 21-23)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1925-1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kuniyasu, Series 9
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The artwork is loosely grouped together by medium - etchings, graphite sketches and drawings, ink sketches and drawings, lithographic plates, etc. Most of the artwork is undated, so they have been given a broad date range.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of this series has been digitized. Materials which have not been digitized include blank pages of the sketchbook and the two zinc lithographic plates and their corresponding prints.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Artwork consists of etchings, numerous sketches and drawings in graphite and ink, sketches painted onto clear acetate which Kuniyoshi used for catalogs, two zinc lithographic plates and their corresponding lithographic prints, and a sketchbook. Some of the drawings that Yasuo Kuniyoshi created for the Office of War Information during World War II are in this series. Also found are Christmas cards designed by Kuniyoshi. There is one folder of pencil sketches by unidentified artists.