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Ray Yoshida papers

Creator:
Yoshida, Ray  Search this
Names:
Art Institute of Chicago. School -- Faculty  Search this
Phyllis Kind Gallery  Search this
Berdich, Vera, 1915-2003  Search this
Blackshear, Kathleen, 1897-1988  Search this
Brown, Roger, 1941-1997  Search this
Ito, Miyoko, 1918-1983  Search this
Kapsalis, Thomas Harry, 1925-  Search this
Kim, Jin Soo, 1950-  Search this
Nilsson, Gladys, 1940-  Search this
Nutt, Jim, 1938-  Search this
Ramberg, Christina  Search this
Rossi, Barbara, 1940-  Search this
Spears, Ethel, 1903-1974  Search this
Wirsum, Karl, 1939-  Search this
Extent:
10 Linear feet
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographs
Sketchbooks
Scrapbooks
Collages
Drawings
Interviews
Prints
Sketches
Transcripts
Video recordings
Date:
circa 1895-2010
bulk 1950-2005
Summary:
The papers of Chicago artist and educator Ray Yoshida measure 10 linear feet and date from circa 1895 to 2010, with the bulk of the material dating from 1950 to 2005. Yoshida's career as a painter and collagist as well as his long tenure as a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago are documented through biographical material, personal correspondence, notebooks and writings, teaching records, personal business records, printed material, source material, photographs, sketchbooks, artwork by Yoshida and others, and scrapbooks. Items within the collection also document Yoshida's personal interest in collecting folk art and artifacts.
Scope and Contents:
The papers of Chicago artist and educator Ray Yoshida measure 10 linear feet and date from circa 1895 to 2010, with the bulk of the material dating from 1950 to 2005. Yoshida's career as a painter and collagist as well as his long tenure as a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago are documented through biographical material, personal correspondence, notebooks and writings, teaching records, personal business records, printed material, source material, photographs, sketchbooks, artwork by Yoshida and others, and scrapbooks. Items within the collection also document Yoshida's personal interest in collecting folk art and artifacts.

Biographical material about Ray Yoshida includes award certificates, identification records, student records, and interview transcripts. Also found is one video recording of a documentary short about Yoshida's art and object collection at his Chicago home.

Correspondence includes letters, postcards, and greeting cards from friends, colleagues, and artists, including Roger Brown, Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Christina Ramberg, Karl Wirsum, Miyoko Ito, Jin Soo Kim, Barbara Rossi, Vera Berdich, and Tom Kapsalis.

Notebooks contain notes on art history, art technique, Japanese language, travel, and other subjects. Many of the notebooks include sketches and contain loose items.

Writings by Yoshida consist of college papers, fragments of writings on art and other subjects, and notes. Writings by others include essays by Yoshida's students, exhibition essay drafts, and poetry.

Teaching records primarily document Yoshida's tenure as a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, though a few records of guest professorships at other schools are included. These records include course evaluations, employment records, teaching notes, and letters of recommendation for students. Miscellaneous teaching records include department memos, course summaries, correspondence, and notes.

Personal business records consists of documentation regarding the sale, exhibition, and loan of artwork by Ray Yoshida, including his business dealings with the Phyllis Kind Gallery. Additionally there are several files regarding the estate of artist Roger Brown.

Printed material includes exhibition catalogs, announcements, news clippings, newsletters and press releases documenting Yoshida's career and other subjects.

Source material consists of material that Yoshida gathered and intended to use for his art. Collected printed material includes postcards, comics and comic books, mail order catalogs, magazines, product labels, and advertisements. Also found are many small clippings from comics collected for collages.

Photographs depict Ray Yoshida, friends, students, travel, and artwork. Also found are a few photographs of Karl Wirsum's studio, as well as photographs of various subjects collected by Yoshida. Additionally, there is one photograph album from the early 1910s of an unidentified family.

Sketchbooks include pencil and ink sketches of various subjects.

Artwork by Ray Yoshida includes collages on paper, pencil sketches, and ink drawings. Artworks by others include numerous prints by Kathleen Blackshear, Ethel Spears, and Vivian Mayers, and collages, drawings, and prints given to Yoshida by students and friends. Some work by unidentified artists is included as well. Other artwork, such as handmade picture and alphabet books, appears to have been created by children and collected by Yoshida.

Scrapbooks include volumes that were created by Yoshida as well as books created by others. Three of the scrapbooks containing source images, clippings, and comics appear to have been created by Yoshida. Additional scrapbooks were created by others and collected by Yoshida.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged as 12 series.

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1950-2005 (0.5 Linear feet; Box 1)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1952-2009 (2 Linear feet; Boxes 1-3, 11, 15)

Series 3: Notebooks, circa 1956-circa 2000 (0.3 Linear feet; Box 3)

Series 4: Writings, circa 1950-2003 (0.3 Linear feet; Box 3)

Series 5: Teaching Records, circa 1960-2003 (0.6 Linear feet; Boxes 3-4)

Series 6: Personal Business Records, circa 1960-2010 (0.4 Linear feet; Box 4)

Series 7: Printed Material, 1906-2010 (1.8 Linear feet; Boxes 4-6, 11, OV 14)

Series 8: Source Material, circa 1940-circa 2005 (0.7 Linear Feet; Boxes 6-7, 11)

Series 9: Photographs, circa 1910-circa 2005 (0.5 Linear feet; Box 7)

Series 10: Sketchbooks, circa 1960-circa 2000 (1.1 Linear feet; Boxes 7-8, 11-13)

Series 11: Artwork, 1903-2009 (0.7 Linear feet; Boxes 8, 13)

Series 12: Scrapbooks, circa 1895-circa 2005 (1 Linear feet; Boxes 8-10, 13)
Biographical / Historical:
Ray Yoshida (1930-2009) was a Japanese American painter, collagist, and educator based in Chicago, Illinois.

Raymond Kakuo Yoshida was born in Kapaa, Hawaii, in 1930. He attended the University of Hawaii for two years and completed a B.A. in Arts Education at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1953. He also served in the U.S. Army for two years during the Korean War. In 1957 he recieved his M.F.A from Syracuse University and became a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1959. He was named Frank Harold Sellers Professor in the Department of Painting and Drawing in 1971, retired as professor emeritus in 1998, and continued to teach until 2003.

Yoshida was a member of the Chicago Imagists, a loose and informal group of representational artists from the late 1960s to early 1970s who were influenced by Surrealism and connected to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Yoshida's friends and contemporaries among this group include but are not limited to Roger Brown, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, and Barbara Rossi. Yoshida was an inspiring teacher and he mentored many of the later Chicago Imagists such as Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, and Karl Wirsum.

Yoshida's paintings and collages were strongly influenced by comics as well as his own collection of folk and outsider art. He regularly exhibited at Phyllis Kind Gallery in Chicago from 1975 to 1996, and a major retrospective of his work was organized by the Contemporary Museum of Honolulu in 1998. He retired to Hawaii in 2005 where he lived until his death in 2009 due to cancer. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Sullivan Galleries held a posthumous retrospective exhibition of Yoshida's work from 2010-2011 and the John Michael Kohler Art Center had an exhibition of Yoshida's personal collection of art and artifacts in 2013.
Provenance:
The collection was donated in 2012 by Ray Yoshida via Terri Yoho of the Kohler Foundation, representing Yoshida's estate, and in 2013 and 2015-2016 by Jennifer Sabas and Shayle Miller, estate executors.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate copy requires advance notice. One box of letters from Jim Nutt are ACCESS RESTRICTED; use requires written permission.
Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Occupation:
Educators -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this
Painters -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this
Collagists -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this
Topic:
Folk art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this
Art -- Study and teaching  Search this
Art -- History  Search this
Art -- Technique  Search this
Artists' studios -- Photographs  Search this
Asian American art  Search this
Asian American artists  Search this
Japanese American art  Search this
Japanese American artists  Search this
Asian American painters  Search this
Asian American educators  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Sketchbooks
Scrapbooks
Collages
Drawings
Interviews
Prints
Sketches
Transcripts
Video recordings
Citation:
Ray Yoshida papers, circa 1895-2010, bulk 1950-2005. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.yoshray
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Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw993d0cce5-3340-4d85-adeb-cb1711fd67e8
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-yoshray
Online Media:

Ryōnei-shō Hakubutsukan shozō Chūgoku no utsuwa ten seidō to tōji henshū Ryōneishō Hakubuatsukan ; hon'yaku kanshū Nishida Hiroko, Yuba Noritomo ; kyōryoku Kabushiki Kaisha Rizŏmu

Title:
遼寧省博物館
Chūgoku no utsuwa ten
遼寧省博物館所蔵中国の噐展 : 青銅と陶磁 / 編集遼寧省博物館 ; 翻訳監修西田宏子, 弓場紀知 ; 恊力株式会社リゾ-ト
Author:
Liaoning Sheng bo wu guan  Search this
Tōbu Hyakkaten  Search this
Subject:
Liaoning Sheng bo wu guan  Search this
Physical description:
111 pages chiefly illustrations (some color), maps 27 cm
Type:
Catalogs
Date:
1989
To 618
Topic:
Bronzes, Chinese  Search this
Porcelain, Chinese  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1161143

Edo fashion kosode robes Oyama Yuzuruha ; translated by Karen J. Mack ; edited by Tokyo National Museum

Title:
Kosode robes
Author:
Oyama, Yuzuruha 1971-  Search this
Translator:
Mack, Karen J  Search this
Author:
Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan  Search this
Subject:
Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan  Search this
Physical description:
63 pages color illustrations 25 cm
Type:
Catalogs
History
Place:
Japan
Tokyo
Tokyo (Japan)
Date:
2020
Edo period, 1600-1868
19th century
1600-1868
Topic:
Kimonos  Search this
Costume--History  Search this
Clothing and dress--History  Search this
Design--History  Search this
Textile design--History  Search this
Clothing and dress--Edo period  Search this
Costume--Edo period  Search this
Design  Search this
Manners and customs  Search this
Textile design--Edo period  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Call number:
NK4784.A1 O9313 2020
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1161144

Tōyei shukō / Kunaishō hen

Title:
東瀛珠光 / 宮內省編
Former owner:
Freer, Charles Lang 1854-1919 DSI-F  Search this
Author:
Japan Kunaishō  Search this
Subject:
Shōsōin (Nara-shi, Japan)  Search this
Physical description:
6 v. : col. ill. ; 50 cm
Type:
Catalogs
Place:
Japan
Nara-shi
Date:
1908
1909
Meiji 41-42 [1908-1909]
Topic:
Art  Search this
Art objects, Japanese  Search this
Call number:
709.52 .J2
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_862913

A history of the Japanese arts / translated by Y. Takenobu and K. Kawakami from the Japanese original. Compiled by the Imperial Museum under control of Baron R. Kuki

Author:
Tōkyō Teishitsu Hakubutsukan  Search this
Fukuchi, Fukuichi 1862-1909  Search this
Ki, Yoshio 1872-1936  Search this
Former owner:
Freer, Charles Lang 1854-1919 DSI-F  Search this
Physical description:
3 v. : plates (part mounted col.)
Type:
Books
Date:
1913
[1913]
Topic:
Art, Japanese--History  Search this
Architecture, Japanese--History  Search this
Call number:
709.52.J2 T6
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_862969

Seiiki kōko zufu

Title:
西域考古圖譜
Author:
Kagawa, Mokushiki  Search this
Former owner:
Freer, Charles Lang 1854-1919 DSI-F  Search this
Physical description:
[235] plates in 2 portfolios. (some col., some fold., some mounted) ; 45 X 33 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1917
Topic:
Archaeology  Search this
Coins  Search this
Tapestry  Search this
Mural painting and decoration  Search this
Sculpture, Asian  Search this
Manuscripts, Asian  Search this
Call number:
913 .K2
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_857703

Masterpieces selected from the Kôrin school : with biographical sketches of the artists of the school, and some critical descriptions / By Shiichi Tajima

Author:
Tajima, Shiichi 1869-1924  Search this
Former owner:
Freer, Charles Lang 1854-1919 DSI-F  Search this
Subject:
Ogata, Kōrin 1658-1716  Search this
Physical description:
5 v. illus., plates (part col., part mounted, part fold.) 43 x 31 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Japan
Date:
1903
1906
1903-06
Topic:
Sōtatsu-Kōrin School  Search this
Painting--Private collections  Search this
Call number:
759.952.K8 T2
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_862524

Kii Kumano Taiji-ura hogei-shi / Kumano Taiji-ura Hogei-shi Hensan I'inkai

Editor:
Kumano Taiji-ura Hogei-shi Hensan I'inkai  Search this
Printer:
Henshū Insatsu Higashi Tamaji  Search this
Physical description:
1 volume (153 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
History
Place:
Japan
Kumano-shi
Taiji-chō (Japan)
Kumano-shi (Japan)
Date:
1932
Topic:
Whaling--History  Search this
Whales  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
SH383.5.J3 K86 1932
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1041937

Furansu Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan ten Naporeon to Jozefīnu = Napoléon et Joséphine / [kanshū Kimura Shōzaburō]

Title:
Napoléon et Joséphine
Author:
Kimura, Shōsaburō 1930-  Search this
Subject:
Napoleon I Emperor of the French 1769-1821  Search this
Josephine Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French 1763-1814  Search this
Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois Préau (France)  Search this
Réunion des musées nationaux (France)  Search this
Physical description:
93, [2] p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 30 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
France
Date:
1995
Topic:
Art objects  Search this
Call number:
DC203 .F87 1995
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_512093

The Kidai Shōran scroll Tokyo street life in the Edo period Ozawa Hiromu and Kobayashi Tadashi ; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter

Author:
Ozawa, Hiromu 1947-  Search this
Kobayashi, Tadashi 1941-  Search this
Translator:
Carpenter, Juliet Winters  Search this
Physical description:
106 pages illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, color maps 23 x 31 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés
Illustrated books
Illustrated works
Place:
Japan
Tokyo
Nihonbashi (Tokyo, Japan)
Tokyo (Japan)
Tōkyō (Japon)
Japon
Nihonbashi
Date:
2020
Edo period, 1600-1868
1600-1868 (Époque d'Edo)
1600-1868
Topic:
Bridges  Search this
Scrolls, Japanese  Search this
Rouleaux japonais  Search this
Manners and customs  Search this
Scrolls, Japanese--Edo period  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Mœurs et coutumes  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1161013

The world of Ito Jakuchu classical Japanese painter of all things great and small in nature Sato Yasuhiro ; translated by Michael Brase

Title:
Classical Japanese painter of all things great and small in nature
Author:
Satō, Yasuhiro  Search this
Translator:
Brase, Michael  Search this
Author:
Translation of: Satō, Yasuhiro Motto shiritai Itō Jakuchū  Search this
Physical description:
167 pages illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, plans 29 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
collective biographies
Place:
Japan
Japon
Date:
2020
Edo period, 1600-1868
1600-1868 (Époque d'Edo)
Topic:
Artists  Search this
Painting, Japanese  Search this
Artistes  Search this
Peinture japonaise  Search this
Painting, Japanese--Edo period  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1161047

ポストモダンを超えて : 21世紀の芸術と社会を考える / 三浦雅士編 ; 芳賀徹, 高階秀爾, 山崎正和, 河本真理, 岡田暁生, 片山杜秀, 齋藤希史, 加藤徹, 三浦篤

Author:
21-seiki Nihon no Geijutsu to Shakai o Kangaeru Kenkyūkai (2011-2013) author  Search this
Editor:
Miura, Masashi 1946-  Search this
Contributor:
Haga, Tōru 1931-2020  Search this
Physical description:
453 pages illustrations 20 cm
Type:
Congresses
Date:
2016
21st century
Topic:
Art, Modern  Search this
Arts, Modern  Search this
Call number:
NX460 .A15 2016
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1071166

静物画にひそむ謎 : 物・語 : 近代日本の静物画

Title:
Monogatari : kindai Nihon no seibutsuga
物・語 - 近代日本の静物画
Host institution:
Fukuoka-shi Bijutsukan  Search this
Physical description:
159 pages illustrations 26 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Date:
2016
19th century
20th century
Topic:
Still-life painting, Japanese  Search this
Call number:
ND1393.J35 S45 2016
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1071170

Rakuchū rakugaizu byōbu tsukurareta "Kyōto" o yomitoku Kojima Michihiro

Title:
洛中洛外図摒風 : つくられた<京都>を読み解く / 小島道裕
Author:
Kojima, Michihiro 1956-  Search this
Physical description:
6, 227 pages, 4 unnumbered pages illustrations, maps 19 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Kyoto (Japan)
Date:
2016
Edo period, 1600-1868
Kamakura-Momoyama periods, 1185-1600
Topic:
Screen painting, Japanese  Search this
In art  Search this
Call number:
ND1053.5 .K645 2016
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1071167

Rikyū zuiichi no deshi Sansai Hosokawa Tadaoki Yabe Seiichirō

Title:
利休随一の弟子三斎細川忠興 / 矢部誠一郎
Sansai Hosokawa Tadaoki
三斎細川忠興
Author:
Yabe, Seiichirō 1941-  Search this
Physical description:
207 pages 19 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
Japan
Date:
2015
16th century
Topic:
Tea masters  Search this
Japanese tea ceremony--History  Search this
Call number:
GT2911.H67 Y34 2015
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1071168

Saigo no e zeppitsu o meguru tabi Kuboshima Seiichirō

Title:
最期の絵 : 絶筆をめぐる旅 / 窪島誠一郎
Author:
Kuboshima, Seiichirō 1941-  Search this
Physical description:
271 pages illustrations (some color) 19 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
Japan
Date:
2016
20th century
Topic:
Painters  Search this
Painting, Japanese  Search this
Call number:
ND1058 .K833 2016
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1071169

Shingan de miru jikū Nakano Yoshiyuki sakuhinshū 1984-2016 "nihonga, suibokuga" = Space-time to see in the mind's eye : a collection of paintings by Yoshiyuki Nakano : Japanese-style paintings and ink paintings

Title:
心眼で観る時空 : 中野嘉之作品集 1984-2016《日本画・水墨画》 = Space-time to see in the mind's eye : a collection of paintings by Yoshiyuki Nakano : Japanese-style paintings and ink paintings
Space-time to see in the mind's eye a collection of paintings by Yoshiyuki Nakano : Japanese-style paintings and ink paintings
Artist:
Nakano, Yoshiyuki 1946-  Search this
Physical description:
159 pages color illustrations 30 cm
Type:
Books
Catalogs
Date:
2016
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1071173

Tōyō bijutsushi Baku Hyonguku kanshū

Title:
東洋美術史 / 朴亨國監修
Editor:
Pak, Hyŏng-guk 1965-  Search this
Author:
Hiraoka, Mihoko 1958-  Search this
Tanaka, Kimiaki  Search this
Tsukamoto, Maromitsu 1976-  Search this
Mizuno, Saya  Search this
Physical description:
373 pages illustrations 21 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2016
Topic:
Art, Asian  Search this
Art, Asian--History  Search this
Call number:
N7260 .T59 2016
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1071176

Utagawa Kunisada kore zo Edo no iki Ōta Kinen Bijutsukan kanshū ; Hinohara Kenji cho

Title:
歌川国貞 : これぞ江戶の粋 / 太田記念美術館監修 ; 日野原健司著
Kunisada
國貞
Author:
Hinohara, Kenji 1974-  Search this
Artist:
Utagawa, Kunisada 1786-1864  Search this
Editor:
Ukiyoe Ōta Kinen Bijutsukan  Search this
Physical description:
135 pages chiefly illustrations 26 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2016
Call number:
NE1325.U79 H56 2016
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1071177

Chōsen koseki zufu Chōsen Sōtokufu

Title:
朝鮮古蹟圖譜, 朝鮮總督府
Author:
Kungnip Ch'ŏnmundae (Korea)  Search this
Former owner:
Freer, Charles Lang 1854-1919 DSI-F  Search this
Physical description:
15 volume plates (part folded, part color) maps (part folded, part color) 43 cm
Type:
Books
Catalogs
Place:
Korea
Date:
1915
1935
Topic:
Art objects, Korean  Search this
Buddhist antiquities  Search this
Antiquities  Search this
Call number:
913.519 .C59 Folio
DS903 .K84
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_273622

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