Summer in Kyoto

1958

American, born Japan 1906 - 1999

A sort of “accidental artist,” Paul Horiuchi did not begin painting professionally until the early 1950s, when he fell off a ladder and injured his arm, preventing him from doing heavy physical labor. He opened an antique shop and began painting in the back, and selling his works—mostly watercolors—up front. When he met with success, he turned to art full time. A friendship with Mark Tobey led Horiuchi to explore certain tenets of Japanese Buddhist philosophy and traditional Japanese art and to apply them to his own work. He turned to the technique of collage in the late 1950s, using torn bits of Japanese paper that he stained with casein and pigments.

Gouache and collage of paper

48 x 30 in. (121.9 x 76.2 cm)

Overall h.: 51 in.

Overall w.: 33 5/8 in.

Northwest Annual Purchase Fund

58.124

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Paul Horiuchi", March 9, 2000 - June 11, 2000

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "44th Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists", 1958. (1958 - 1958)

Washington D. C., Smithsonian Institution, "Northwest Painters Today", 1959-1960; circulated to Boise Art Association, Idaho, 1959; Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C., 1959; Historical Society of Montana, Helena, Montana, 1959; J. B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, 1959; Stanford Art Museum, Stanford University, California, 1960. (1959 - 1960)

Anchorage, Alaska, Alaska Methodist University, "The Artists", 1960. (1960 - 1960)

Seattle, Washington, Gethsemane Lutheran Church, "Gethsemane Lutheran Church Synod Convention", 1961. (1961 - 1961)

Port Townsend, Washington, "Port Townsend Annual Art Festival", 1961. (1961 - 1961)

Tacoma, Washington, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, "Northwest Painting", 1969. (1969 - 1969)

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