Discipline: Visual Art

Taro Yamamoto

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: South Wellfleet, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1954, 1956, 1957
Taro Yamamoto (1919–1994) belonged to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic. New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and others became a leading art movement of the post-World War II era. Yamamoto studied at Santa Monica City College in 1949; The Art Students League of New York, under Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Morris Kantor, Byron Browne, and Vaclav Vytlacil from 1950-1952; Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in New York City from 1951-1953. In 1952, Yamamoto won the John Sloan Memorial Fellowship at The Art Students League of New York.

Studios

New Hampshire

Taro Yamamoto worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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