Ray Yoshida
American, 1930-2009
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Ray Yoshida
American, 1930-20091999
drawings (visual works)prints and drawing
Date
1999
Medium
Collage of printed comic book pages, cut and pasted onto tan wove paper
Dimensions
43.4 × 33.3 cm (17 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of the Raymond K. Yoshida Living Trust and Kohler Foundation, Inc.
Yoshida taught for four decades at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, influencing generations of artists. He collected comic book clippings— obsessively organizing them by shape, gesture, and sign—and used them to create unique collages. Yoshida methodically arranged his cutouts in a grid, playing with pattern and forms. A renowned collector of popular art and found objects, he believed comics were a form of folk art, a genre for which he had great respect.
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