Item #CL175-109 [Cock Fight]. Fuji Nakamizo, Japanese/Amer.
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[Cock Fight]

c1930s. Etching with hand-colouring, signed in pencil and artist’s seal in lower margin, 20 x 35cm. Old tape marks to upper margin, faint old mount burn.

Japanese-born artist and illustrator Nakamizo learned printmaking from Joseph Pennell. Employed under the Federal Public Works of Art Project during the 1930s, Nakamizo’s work was included in several exhibitions held in various venues including the Chicago Institute of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum and Montross Gallery in New York City. During WWII Nakamizo was interned at the Japanese-American internment camp in Topaz, Utah. Work held in Library of Congress. Ref: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1933, 1936, Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian, Library of Congress, USA.

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Item #CL175-109

Price (AUD): $1,250.00  other currencies

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