The artists

Sadao Watanabe

Born: Tokyo 1913
Died: Tokyo 1996

Studied: In the workshop of Serizawa, master of the stencil-dying technique.

Selected exhibitions and awards: The first Japan Craft Center prize, 1947; Kokuga prize,1948; Japan Print Academy prize, 1956; International Print Biennial in Tokyo, Japan, 1962; Portland Museum of Art, U.S.A. 1969; Modern Japanese Print Exhibition in Brussels, Belgium, 1971.

Selected collections: British Museum, London, Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sidney, Australia; Art Institute of Chicago, U.S.A.; Boston Art Museum, U.S.A.; Carnegie Museum, U.S.A.; Cincinnati Museum of Art, U.S.A.; Folk and Craft Museum Tokyo, Japan; Museum of Modern Art in New York (Moma), U.S.A.; National Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan; Methodist Collection of Modern Art.