Artist: Risaburo Kimura– Japanese/American (1924-2014 ) Title: City 365 Year: circa 1972 Medium: Serigraph Sight size: 25 x 19.75 inches. Sheet size: 28.75 x 22.75 inches. Signature: Signed lower right Edition: 300 This one: 238/300 Condition: Very good Unframed This color screenprint is by the noted Japanese/American artist Risaburo Kimura (1924-2014). He is noted for is colorful abstract cityscapes. This one is in very good, never framed condition. Painter and printmaker Risaburo Kimura was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 1924. Before pursuing art, he attended the Kanagawa Instructor's School (now the Yokohama National University) and, in 1959, he studied philosophy at Hosei University. While at Hosei he took extracurricular art courses from Tetsuzo Tanikawa, and he decided to become an art critic. This was short lived, however, when he realized he wanted to become a painter. He joined the Sozo Biiku Movement (Society for Creative Art Education), centered around creative artistic freedom and led by artists such as Teijiro Kubo and Ay-o. In 1964 he traveled to the United States to open an atelier in New York, where he began focusing on printmaking, especially silkscreen. He became known for his themes of cities and city life, creating the series "Great Cities of the World" in the late 1960s, featuring abstracted, colorful depictions of fictional major metropolitan areas executed in both silkscreen and lithography. With over 400 images, the series took three years to complete. Kimura died in New York in 2014. Exhibitions (partial list of group and solo exhibitions): Brooklyn Museum Guggenheim Museum National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan Biennial of Prints, Tokyo Modern Prints of Japan, Brussels, Belgium Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City Collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Kyoto City Hall. Kyoto, Japan Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH National Museum of Modern Art, Japan Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia Kimura exhibited in both group and solo shows at the Brooklyn Museum; the Guggenheim Museum; and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, among others. Special exhibitions included the Biennial of Prints in Tokyo; Modern Prints of Japan, Brussels, Berlgium; Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico Coty; and the Japanese Arts Festival at the Guggenheim, among others. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum; Kyoto City Hall, Japan; Oklahoma Art Center; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; National Museumof Modern Art, Japan; Museo La Tertulia Cali in Colombia, South America; and the Museum of Modern Art, NY, among others. Kimura died in New York in 2014.