Sadao Watanabe Signed Stencil Print " Peter And The Rooster "
Item History & Price
Sadao Watanabe (Japanese, 1913-1996)Peter and the Rooster
stencil print, signed l.r., numbered 15/70, dated 1974in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago
visible image measures approximately: 21 3/4" W x 26" Hframe measures approximately: 28 1/2" W x 32 1/2" H
About Sadao Watanabe
Sadao Watanabe was born in 1913 in Ushigome, Tokyo. He grew up in Tokyo and lived there his entire life. Sadao's father died when he was ten years old. Afte...r the death of his father, Sadao quit school and started to work in order to support himself. Sadao became an apprentice to a dyer and gradually learned the technique of Katazome (stencil printing). He met Keizuke Serizawa the leading folk art print master. Serizawa had discovered the technique of stencil printing that had been done in the Okinawan Islands.Traditionally, the stencil was put on a cloth, but it was Serizawa who started to utilize it with paper. While learning the stencil technique from Serizawa, Sadao gradually developed his work centering upon the Biblical message and drama. In 1943, he exhibited his first Biblical print, "The Story of Abraham" at an exhibition of the Tokyo Prefectural Craftsmen.Katazome is a unique craft of dyeing textiles through cut-out paper patterns. Sadao employed this technique to create unusual stencil prints on Japanese paper. After applying natural dyes on rice paper, which are fixed with an ingredient from the astringent persimmon, he washes the paper. Then after putting rice paste on the stencil, he applies the natural color and washes the paper again.In 1947, the first National Exhibition of Folk Art was held at the Folk Art Museum in Komaba, Japan. He participated with the "Story of Ruth". It was a black and white print in which the story of Ruth and Naomi was carefully depicted-- it began his interpretive journey of Biblical prints. The work was highly commended by Keizuke Serizawa. Watanabe became the first recipient of the Japan Folk Art Museum Award.Sadao's work cabe be found in the collections of: Tokyo Museum of Modern Art, Japan Folk Art Museum, Kurashiki Folk Art Museum, Ohara Art Museum, New York Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Art Institute of Chicago, Cincinnati Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art, Honolulu Academy of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Vatican Museum of Modern Religious Art, and the British Museum.
stencil print, signed l.r., numbered 15/70, dated 1974in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago
visible image measures approximately: 21 3/4" W x 26" Hframe measures approximately: 28 1/2" W x 32 1/2" H
About Sadao Watanabe
Sadao Watanabe was born in 1913 in Ushigome, Tokyo. He grew up in Tokyo and lived there his entire life. Sadao's father died when he was ten years old. Afte...r the death of his father, Sadao quit school and started to work in order to support himself. Sadao became an apprentice to a dyer and gradually learned the technique of Katazome (stencil printing). He met Keizuke Serizawa the leading folk art print master. Serizawa had discovered the technique of stencil printing that had been done in the Okinawan Islands.Traditionally, the stencil was put on a cloth, but it was Serizawa who started to utilize it with paper. While learning the stencil technique from Serizawa, Sadao gradually developed his work centering upon the Biblical message and drama. In 1943, he exhibited his first Biblical print, "The Story of Abraham" at an exhibition of the Tokyo Prefectural Craftsmen.Katazome is a unique craft of dyeing textiles through cut-out paper patterns. Sadao employed this technique to create unusual stencil prints on Japanese paper. After applying natural dyes on rice paper, which are fixed with an ingredient from the astringent persimmon, he washes the paper. Then after putting rice paste on the stencil, he applies the natural color and washes the paper again.In 1947, the first National Exhibition of Folk Art was held at the Folk Art Museum in Komaba, Japan. He participated with the "Story of Ruth". It was a black and white print in which the story of Ruth and Naomi was carefully depicted-- it began his interpretive journey of Biblical prints. The work was highly commended by Keizuke Serizawa. Watanabe became the first recipient of the Japan Folk Art Museum Award.Sadao's work cabe be found in the collections of: Tokyo Museum of Modern Art, Japan Folk Art Museum, Kurashiki Folk Art Museum, Ohara Art Museum, New York Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Art Institute of Chicago, Cincinnati Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art, Honolulu Academy of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Vatican Museum of Modern Religious Art, and the British Museum.
