Okanoue Toshiko
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Artist Okanoue Toshiko(Japanese, born 1928)Japanese, born 1928

CultureJapanese

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Date1951

MediumHalftone print collage

DimensionsImage: 15 × 11 1/8 in. (38.1 × 28.3 cm)
Sheet: 15 × 11 1/8 in. (38.1 × 28.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of the artist

Object number2002.345

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Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionOkanoue 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; given to MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "Okanoue Toshiko: Collages," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Cameron Foundation Gallery, 8/10/02-11/3/02.

"Utopia/ Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 March - 10 June, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Marked in red on verso lower left: "78 Toshiko"

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