Small Picture

Dimensions: 12 x 19 in. (30.48 x 48.26 cm)

Markings: (in pencil at bottom of print) Small picture 50-15 Hiroyuki Tajima, '64

Hiroyuki Tajima graduated from Nihon University n 1932 and from the Western-style painting division of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1943. The artist made his first print in 1946, the same year he joined the Bijutsu Bunka Kyokai (Art Culture Association), an instrumental group in bringing the Western abstract and surrealist painting back to Japan after the war. In the 1960s and 1970s, Tajima developed his well-known abstract style of combination prints with intense, rich colors and textural surfaces. In 1963 Tajima became a member of the Nihon Hanga Kyokai, the Japanese Print Association. His work was shown in the 1964 Tokyo Biennale as well as in international competitions. Tajima also produced landscape prints under the name Nagai Kiyoshi.