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Yoshida Chizuko

The Portland Art Museum is presenting the first major museum retrospective of Yoshida Chizuko (1924–2017), a pioneering Japanese modernist painter and printmaker. The exhibition features over 100 works, many never before exhibited, spanning her career from avant-garde abstraction in the 1940s to op art and nature-inspired compositions in her later years. Many works are part of a planned major acquisition from the Yoshida family estate, joining the museum's significant holdings of 20th-century Japanese prints.

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Yoshida Chizuko

The Portland Art Museum is hosting the first major museum retrospective of Yoshida Chizuko (1924–2017), a pioneering Japanese modernist painter and printmaker. The exhibition features over 100 works, including early oil paintings, monotypes, woodblock prints, lithographs, and mixed media pieces, many never before exhibited. It traces her career from avant-garde abstraction in the 1940s and 1950s through op art and photoetchings in the 1960s and 1970s to nature-inspired late works, and includes a planned major acquisition from the Yoshida family estate.

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