About Goro Kumagai
Lived 1932 – 2017 (aged 84–85). Goro Kumagai was a Japanese painter, printmaker, teacher and illustrator.
Goro Kumagai (; 1932 – 2017) was a Japanese visual artist and educator. He is known for traditional Japanese woodcut prints. Kumagai taught woodblock printing for many years at Saitama University in Saitama City, Japan.
Biography Kumagai was born in 1932, in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Empire of Japan. He graduated in 1956 from the department of Western painting at the Musashino Art University in Kodaira, Japan.
Kumagai taught woodblock printing at Saitama University, from 1961 until 1998.
Kumagai's artwork is in museum collections, including at in the Art Institute of Chicago; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Minneapolis Institute of Art; the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in Victoria, Canada; the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, D.C.; and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C..
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Who was Goro Kumagai?
Japanese printmaker, educator (1932–2017)
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Goro Kumagai was born in 1932 in Hirosaki.
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Goro Kumagai died in 2017 in Hirosaki.
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Goro Kumagai was a painter, printmaker, teacher and illustrator.
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Goro Kumagai was Japanese.
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