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Jiro Yoshihara (1905-1972), To Martha's Memory, 1970, Japanese. Oil on canvas. 73 x 92 cm. Courtesy of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (http://www.albrightknox.org); gift of Mr and Mrs David K. Anderson to the Martha Jackson Collection.

As early as the 1950s the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York City was challenging the conventional art world by exhibiting works of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Jackson was especially interested in bringing artists to her gallery who were still unknown in the United States. One of these was Jiro Yoshihara (1905-1972), a founder of abstract painting in Japan and leader of the Gutai (literal translation: "Concrete"; "Embodiment") Art Association. Based in Osaka, Gutai was founded in 1954 by 18 young Japanese artists, one of several avant-garde art groups that sprang up in Japan following World War II. Entirely independent of similar movements elsewhere in the Western art world, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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