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Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japanese-American painter and photographer (died 1953)

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Born
September 1, 1893
Died
May 14, 1953
Zodiac sign
Virgo
Birth year
1893

About Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Yasuo Kuniyoshi was a Japanese-American painter, photographer and printmaker. Kuniyoshi was awarded the Temple Gold Medal in 1934 from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. In 1948, Kuniyoshi became the first living artist chosen to have a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Kuniyoshi was also known for his still-life paintings of common objects, and figurative subjects like female circus performers and nudes.

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Yasuo Kuniyoshi timeline

  1. Kuniyoshi was awarded the Temple Gold Medal in 1934 from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.
  2. In 1948, Kuniyoshi became the first living artist chosen to have a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The world when Yasuo Kuniyoshi was born

Yasuo Kuniyoshi was born in 1893. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineWorld's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
  • Technology milestoneFirst Ferris wheel debuts at Chicago World's Fair
  • Notable inventionFerris wheel (264 feet tall)
  • World population~1.53B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderGrover Cleveland
  • U.S. population66.0M

1893 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Yasuo Kuniyoshi's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18932026
Population66.0M341 million

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