Taro Yamamoto (October 29, 1919 – June 12, 1994) belonged to the New York School

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artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris.

Biography

Yamamoto was born October 29, 1919, in Hollywood,

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. He lived in Japan from age six to age nineteen. Yamamoto served in the

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during

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, from November 7, 1941, to February 23, 1946. Yamamoto studied: 1949 at the

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; 1950–1952 at The Art Students League of New York, under

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, Morris Kantor, Byron Browne and Vaclav Vytlacil; 1951–1953 at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in

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. Yamamoto in 1952 won the John Sloan Memorial Fellowship at The Art Students League of New York. In 1953, under the Edward G. McDowell Traveling Fellowship went to

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. He married Gwynneth Cotton, a naturalized English woman, in 1955, and they lived in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. They were active at the Universalist Church of Provincetown.Archives of the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House of Provincetown Yamamoto died in Provincetown in 1994.

Selected solo exhibitions

*1953: Gallerie Huit, Paris; *1955: The Art Students League of New York, NYC; *1960–1962: Krasner Gallery, NYC; *1963–1964: 371 Gallery, Provincetown, MA;

Selected group exhibitions

*1951:

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; *1952: NY Contemporary Gallery, NYC; *1952, 1955, 1956, 1962: Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA; *1953: "New York Painting and Sculpture Annual," Stable Gallery, NYC; *1958: Riverside Museum, NYC; *1960:

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and

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; *1957, 1965: Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY

References

*Provincetown Art Association & Museum
''New York--Provincetown, a 50s connection: July 8-August 1, 1994''
Publisher: The Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA: 1994. OCLC: 193550963

Books

* Marika Herskovic
''New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists,''
(New York School Press, 2000.) . p. 33; p. 39; p. 378-381

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