☆Takeo Funakoshi☆ "Young Woman" Copperplate Etching E.A Good Condition! (2)

Artist: Takeo Funakoshi
Title: Young Woman
Technique: Copperplate etching
Size: Image approx. 112X90mm
Edition: E.A
Signature: Hand-signed
Artwork Condition: Good
Frame Condition: Good
Frame Size: Approx. 452X377mm With box

Takeo Funakoshi Biography

1912 Born in Iwate Prefecture
1938 Kokugakai Award at the Kokugakai Exhibition
1939 Graduated from the Sculpture Department of Tokyo School of Fine Arts
Participated in the founding of the New Sculpture Association
1941 Two-person exhibition with Shunsuke Matsumoto (Morioka)
1953 Modern Sculpture Exhibition (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
1954 1st Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition
1956 7th Exhibition of Excellent Works of Art (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi)
1961 Ube City Open-Air Sculpture Exhibition, also the 1st Contemporary Japanese Sculpture Exhibition
1962 Completion of Monument to the 26 Martyrs of Japan, Nagasaki
5th Takamura Kotaro Award
1967 Became a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts
1968 Completion of Tatsuko Statue at Lake Tazawa, Akita Prefecture
1971 Donated Castle of Fields to the Pope
1971 3rd Teijiro Nakahara Award
1973 Received the Order of Knight Commander of St. Gregory the Great from the Pope
1977 Created Seasons of Eastern Hokkaido - Spring on the Nupporo Bridge in Kushiro City, received the Jin Hasegawa Memorial Award
1978 Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts
1981 Became a professor at Tama Art University
1982 Publication of Takeo Funakoshi Works (Kodansha)
Publication of Giant Rocks and Petals (Chikuma Shobo)
Takeo Funakoshi Exhibition (Nihonbashi Takashimaya)
1983 Received the Japan Essayists' Club Award for Giant Rocks and Petals (Chikuma Shobo)
1984 Awarded the Fourth Class Order of the Rising Sun, Small Ribbon
1985 Takeo Funakoshi Exhibition - Stone Sculptures and Drawings (Nihonbashi Takashimaya)
Publication of Shadows of Stone Otoishi (Chikuma Shobo)
1988 Takeo Funakoshi Exhibition (Sapporo Art Park Museum of Fine Arts, etc.)
2002 Died