Artist
Okanoue Toshiko(Japanese, born 1928)Japanese, born 1928
CultureJapanese
Titles
- View from Penitentiary
Date1952
MediumHalftone print collage
DimensionsImage: 12 11/16 × 8 3/4 in. (32.2 × 22.2 cm)
Sheet: 12 11/16 × 8 3/4 in. (32.2 × 22.2 cm)
Sheet: 12 11/16 × 8 3/4 in. (32.2 × 22.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern, Anne Wilkes Tucker, and the Louisa Stude Sarofim Charitable Trust, courtesy of Mary Lawrence Porter
Object number2002.332
Not on view
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PhotographyObject Type
Toshiko created collages that combined symbols from two visions of modernity—one
Japanese, one Western. Using photographic fragments from Western magazines,
such as Vogue and Life, she constructed works that she
described as “droplets of dreams.” The artist described her initial experiments
with collage: “I cut out the photographs that fit my dreams and tried arranging
them on black folded paper. Those scraps of my fantasies turned into strangely
interesting things, things I would not have thought of.”
ProvenanceThe artist, Kochi, Japan; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History"Okanoue Toshiko: Collages," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, August 10–November 3, 2002.
"Utopia/ Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 11–June 10, 2012.
"Toshiko Okanoue, Photo Collage: The Miracle of Silence," Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, January 26–April 7, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil on verso sheet lower center: " 2 (Japanese characters) 1952"
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