YAMAGUCHI TAKEO

• YAMAGUCHI TAKEO, Western-style painter and pioneer of abstract painting in Japan, won the Excellence Prize at the First Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan in 1954 and the Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize in 1962.exhibited his works at international exhibitions including the American Abstract Art Exhibition at the Riverside Museum in New York in 1954, the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1954, the Venice Biennale in 1956, the 2nd Guggenheim Prize Art Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in 1958, and the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1963. Major collections: Nerima Art Museum, Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Kagoshima City Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka