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Matsumi Kanemitsu

Matsumi Kanemitsu

Artist

PrintmakingColor Field

Representation

None documented

6

Institutional Exhibitions

90

Works in Collection

165

Assets Indexed

0

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0

Publications Referenced

90%

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Movements

• Color Field

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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Ways of Looking

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1971

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Tamarind: Homage to Lithography

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1969

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Frank O'Hara/In Memory of My Feelings

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1967–1968

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Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1964

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60 Modern Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1963

About

Why this artist matters now

Matsumi Kanemitsu was an American painter and printmaker whose gestural, expressive abstractions emerged from the postwar avant-garde. Working primarily in oil and printmaking, he developed a distinctive language that engaged color field painting with gestural mark-making. His work navigated the formal innovations of abstraction during the mid-twentieth century.

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Color Field

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Printmaking

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago

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Artworks (90)

Illustrations of Southern California

Illustrations of Southern California

1970 · Portfolio of nine lithographs in black and brown ink and one color screenprint on ivory wove paper in a dropspine box

Image/sheet: 51 × 38.2 cm (20 1/8 × 15 1/16 in.); Box: 54.5 × 41.7 × 2.2 cm (21 1/2 × 16 7/16 × 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled from the Mikey Mouse Series

Untitled from the Mikey Mouse Series

1970 · One from a portfolio of nineteen lithographs (including title page)

composition: 8 × 9 15/16" (20.3 × 25.3 cm); sheet: 8 × 9 15/16" (20.3 × 25.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Monday's Witch

1970 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 12 3/8 × 11 7/8" (31.4 × 30.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Forty-Eight

1970 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 27 15/16 × 21 15/16" (71 × 55.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from the Mikey Mouse Series

Untitled from the Mikey Mouse Series

1970 · One from a portfolio of nineteen lithographs (including title page)

composition: 8 1/16 × 9 15/16" (20.4 × 25.3 cm); sheet: 8 1/16 × 9 15/16" (20.4 × 25.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Number Six State II

Number Six State II

1970 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 25 × 36" (63.5 × 91.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mikey Mouse Series

1970 · Portfolio of nineteen lithographs (including cover page)

various composition dimensions; sheet (each approx.): 8 × 9 15/16" (20.3 × 25.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from the Mikey Mouse Series

Untitled from the Mikey Mouse Series

1970 · One from a portfolio of nineteen lithographs (including title page)

composition (irreg.): 7 15/16 × 8 1/4" (20.2 × 20.9 cm); sheet: 7 15/16 × 9 15/16" (20.2 × 25.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Sunday (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sunday (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Stanley Whitney

Stanley Whitney

Shared movement

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Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly

Shared movement

Shared movement

Christopher Williams

Christopher Williams

Also printmaking

Also printmaking

Also printmaking

Also printmaking

Also printmaking

Also printmaking

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Movements and affiliations

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago