Mother and Child
母子像
- Birth Year
- 1894
- Death Year
- 1973
- Date
- 1946-47
- Technique, Material, Format
- oil on canvas
- Dimension
- 91.0 x 72.9 cm
- Donor name
- Ms. Sarashina Akiko, Ms. Utsuda Miyako, and Ms. Ito Miyumi
- Category
- Oil or Other Painting by Japanese Artist
- Inventory Number
- 2009-OJ-003
This is one of the earliest paintings made by Kinoshita Takanori after World War II. Before the war, he had removed himself from the hubbub of competing avant-garde movements and focused on realism. During the war, he hadn’t made war paintings and so had limited access to paints. He then spent some time in idleness immediately after the war, but once Yokohama came under the allied occupation he found himself back in front of the canvas making portraits like this one. From around this time until the 1950s he made several portraits of Westerners, including some military personnel. Ultimately, he became best known for later works, which adroitly portray young women reclining with outstretched arms and legs, but this period shows him depicting facial features using traditional portrait compositions.
(UCHIYAMA Junko)