Toshi Yoshida's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York British Museum, London Paris National Library, Seattle Museum of Art and the Krakow National Museum. In 1980, Toshi opened the Miasa Cultural Center in Nagano Prefecture where he taught students from many countries, including Carol Jessen and Karyn Young. For a few years after the war, he made prints of abstract subjects, but then reverted to prints of scenery and animals. In 1954 he taught printmaking for one month at the Art Institute of Chicago and since that time has often traveled to the US, Canada, Mexico, Africa, Australia and Antarctica for sketching, exhibitions and lectures. In the early 1950's, he visited the US and Europe where he exhibited works and lectured about woodblock prints. In 1936 Toshi journeyed to China and Korea. From 1925-1929 he studied oil painting at Taiheiyo Art School and in 1929 traveled with his father to India and Southeast Asia. Under his father's influence, Toshi began to learn painting at age 3 and woodblock printing at age 13. As a rule of thumb, his use of colors and large areas is more daring than in the prints of his father.Born in Tokyo in 1911, Toshi Yoshida was the eldest son of Hiroshi Yoshida. The artist developed his style over the years. Like his father, he liked mountaineering and you can find quite a few mountain landscape prints viewed from a summit. And as his father did, Toshi transformed many of his impressions from his travels outside Japan into print designs. The artist's favorite subjects were landscapes and animals. Even Antarctica was not left out.ĭuring these extended travels, Toshi made sketches for new prints, had exhibitions of his art and lectured about woodblock printmaking at different places in the United States and Europe. After the end of World War II he traveled all over the world. In 1936 Toshi Yoshida stayed in China and Korea. And to lose no time, they took the night trains to get from one place to another. During the day his father tried to make as many sketches and oil paintings as possible. It was the complete opposite of a leisure trip. The artist later wrote about his experience of this trip to India. Toshi had inherited not only his father's talent but also his passion for traveling. When Toshi was nineteen years old, his father took him on a sketching trip to India in 1930 and later to Southeast Asia. and in 2013 was named Classic Artist of the Year at the Billboard Japan Music Awards.
The movement’s principles involved the idea that a single artist would draw, carve, and print his own works, rather than dividing the tasks for assistants to carry out. A full brother to Yoshida played the starring role at the July 14. He is best known for his association with the sosaku-hanga movement in the early 20th century. Toshi Yoshida's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 45 USD to 7,492 USD, depending on the size and. Their work was featured in several exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the Worcester Art Museum. His father was a true cosmopolitan and he educated his children in this sense. Toshi Yoshida was a Japanese printmaker and painter. Toshi Yoshida was a Japanese Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1911. And the quality of the child's drawings astonished even his father. Toshi Yoshida is said to have started drawing at the age of three. Thus the young Toshi grew up in that perfect environment that has the tendency to bring forth a genius. Even his grandfather had worked as an artist. From an early age he learned the art of printmaking and painting from his father and his mother Fujio - an artist herself. Toshi Yoshida was born on July 25, 1911, in Tokyo as the eldest son of the painter and printmaker Hiroshi Yoshida in 1911 in Tokyo. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame has very minor restorations, practically invisible. Custom framed in a wooden antique silver frame, with off white matting. The image (block mark) size is 9.5 x 14.5 inches, framed size is 18 x 23.75 inches. It is hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist. This artwork titled "Rice Field in Suizu" 1951 is an original color woodcut by noted Japanese artist Toshi Yoshida, 1911-1995.