Amano Kunihiro 天野邦弘, 1929-

Born in Hirosaki, Aomori prefecture, Amano Kunihiro graduated from the Aomori Prefectural Technical school. He is self-taught as a woodblock artist. His prints typically show fantastic birds or fish and he depicts strongly colored geometrical shapes.

See:

• Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada. Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1992), p. 9.

Creator.Personal Name: 天野邦弘, 1929- Creator.Personal Name: Amano Kunihiro, 1929- Creator.Role: print-maker Title: Fossil 'a flower and the birds' (8). Description: colored and embossed woodblock print; title and artist's signature in bottom margin; edition number 12/60; dated '68. Date: 1968. Subject: Abstract prints. Subject: Flowers. Subject: Birds. Type: Woodcuts. Style.Period: Modern. Technique: Prints. Material.Medium: ink. Material.Support: paper. Measurements: image; 14 3/4 x 21 3/8 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) ID: Amano Kunihiro L-1 Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. Detail: signature.

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