Taro Yamamoto (American, 1919-1994), Irregular

Acrylic, graphite, and watercolor on paper, signed at lower left, matted in a gallery frame below glass.

Sight size 11 1/4 x 15 1/2 in.; Frame dimensions 18 1/2 x 22 3/4 in.

From the Collection of Duke Hospital, Sold to Benefit Duke Arts and Health

Tara Yamamoto was born in California to a wealthy Japanese family. At the age of six, he was taken to live in Japan, where he remained until age 19. After serving in the U.S. Army from 1941 to 1946, he attended Santa Monica City College where he was awarded a Grand Prize for a painting. From 1950 to 1952 he studied at the Art Student's League in New York under Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Morris Kanter, Byron Browne, and Vaclav Vyrlacil. Afterward, he attended the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in New York. He was awarded the John Sloan Memorial Fellowship at the Art Students' League in New York and the Edward G. McDowell Traveling Fellowship. Under the latter, he studied in Europe before working on and off at the McDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire from 1955 to 1957. He settled and worked in Provincetown, Massachusetts from the 1950s until his death in 1994.

Toning to the sheet, not examined outside the frame.