Naoko Matsubara

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Naoko Matsubara (2018)

Naoko Matsubara ( Japanese 松原 直 子 , Matsubara Naoko ; * 1937 in Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku ) is a Japanese - Canadian artist best known for her woodcuts .

Life

Naoko Matsubara grew up as the daughter of a prominent Shinto priest in Kyoto and also studied there at the Kyoto-shiritsu Geijutsu Daigaku . After graduating, she went to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on a Fulbright Scholarship and received a Master of Fine Arts. Then she studied for a year at the Royal College of Art in London and returned to Japan in 1963 after traveling through Europe and Asia. Two years later she went back to the USA, initially to work as an assistant to Fritz Eichenberg, an art professor. She then taught at the Pratt Graphic Center in New York and at the University of Rhode Island, and eventually settled as a freelance artist in Cambridge, Massachusetts . After she married David Waterhouse, a professor at the University of Toronto, she moved to Oakville , Canada in 1972 , where she has lived and worked as an artist ever since.

The writer Hisako Matsubara is her older sister.

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Works by Naoko Matsubara can be found in the collections of the Albertina in Vienna, the British Museum in London, the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, the Philadelphia Museum of Art , the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto , the Chicago Art Institute , the Meguro Museum in Tokyo and the Museum for Commerce and Art in Hamburg.

In addition to her woodcuts, which have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world, Naoko Matsubara has also illustrated 18 books. In particular, with her work Tales Of Days Gone By 17 , she illustrated selected stories from the Konjaku Monogatari , a collection of stories from the 12th century . She also illustrated the German edition of the Taketori Monogatari , which was translated and provided with an afterword by her sister, the German-speaking writer Hisako Matsubara. In addition to her artistic work, Naoko Matsubara has also written numerous articles and documentations on artistic topics.

See also

literature

  • The lucky ones from the moon . In: Die Zeit , No. 50/1969, review of the German edition of Taketori-monogatari (The story of the bamboo collector and the girl Kaguya)
  • Helen Merritt, Nanako Yamada: Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints. 1900-1975. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu HI 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X , p. 86
  • Norman Tollman, Mary Tollman: Collecting Modern Japanese Prints: Then & Now . Tuttle Publishing, 2013, ISBN 9781462903740 , pp. 222-224

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personal data
SURNAME Matsubara, Naoko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 松原 直 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese-Canadian woodcut artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku