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Yasushi Tanaka

Yasushi Tanaka (1886 - 1941) was active/lived in Washington / France, Japan.  Yasushi Tanaka is known for Nudes, landscape, still life, portrait.

Yasushi Tanaka was born May 13, 1886 in Saitana, Japan. In 1904 he moved to Seattle, Washington. After graduating high school in Seattle he studied at the Seattle Fine Art Association and exhibited and taught there from 1901 to 1920. His first exhibition was at the Washington Museum in Seattle in 1912. In Seattle, in 1914, he had his first one-man show where he exhibited cubist and futurist-influenced works.

In 1917 Tanaka married American author Louise Gebhard Cann who published several books and articles on French artists. Cann was also acquainted with James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway.

In 1920 Tanaka had a farewell exhibition and moved to Paris. It is not known whether he ever returned to Japan or the United States.

Tanaka exhibited often in Paris at the Society Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Salon des Automne and Salon des Tuileries. In 1922 and 1924 Tanaka had solo-exhibitions at the Galerie de Marsan for which a fine illustrated catalogue was produced.   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3882 characters.]  Artist bio

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