APJ A1298

北川民次

| 1894-01-17 | 1989-04-26

KITAGAWA Tamiji

| 1894-01-17 | 1989-04-26

Names

北川民次
KITAGAWA Tamiji (index name)
Kitagawa Tamiji (display name)
北川民次 (Japanese display name)
きたがわたみじ (transliterated hiragana)

Date of birth

1894-01-17

Birth place

Haibara District, Shizuoka Prefecture

Date of death

1989-04-26

Death place

Seto City, Aichi Prefecture

Gender

Male

Fields of activity

Painting
Printmaking

Biography

英語は後日公開予定です。

1973: Kitagawa Tamiji kaiko ten: Gagyō 60-nen, Nihombashi Tōkyū Hyakkaten, Nagoya Nichidō Garō, Osaka Umeda Kindai Bijutsukan, 1973.
1989: Kitagawa Tamiji ten, Nagoya City Art Museum and Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 1989.
1996: Kitagawa Tamiji ten, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, 1996–97.
2024: Kitagawa Tamiji ten: Mekisiko kara Nihon e: Seitan 130-nen kinen (Kitagawa Tamiji Retrospective: From Mexico to Japan), Nagoya City Art Museum and Setagaya Art Museum and Koriyama City Museum of Art, 2024–25.

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
Nagoya City Art Museum
Koriyama City Museum of Art, Fukushima Prefecture
Seto City Art Museum, Aichi Prefecture

1952: Kitagawa Tamiji. “E o egaku kodomotachi: Mekishiko [Mexico] no omoide. Iwanami shinsho.” Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1952. [Artists Writing].
1955: Kitagawa Tamiji. “Mekishiko (Mexico) no seishun: 15-nen o indian to tomoni. Kappa bukkusu.” Tokyo: Kōbunsha, 1955. [Artists Writing].
1962: Kitagawa Tamiji. “Usagi no mimi wa naze nagai.” Tokyo: Fukuinkan Shoten, 1962. [Artists Writing].
1974: Unagami Masaomi, ed. “Batta no tetsugaku = aforizumu: Kitagawa Tamiji hanga-shū (BATTA Narrates Aphorism).” Tokyo: Unac Tokyo, 1974.
1977: Kubo Sadajirō, ed. “Kitagawa Tamiji hanga zenshū 1928-1977.” Nagoya: Nagoya Nichidō Garō, 1977. [Catalogue Raisonné].
1983: Kitagawa Tamiji. “Roba no tawagoto: Kitagawa Tamiji zuihitsushū.” Nagoya: Nagoya Nichidō Garō, 1983. [Artists Writing].
1984: Kubo Sadajirō. “Kitagawa Tamiji.” Kubo Sadajirō bijutsu no sekai, vol. 1. Tokyo: Sōbunsha, 1984.
1989: Nagoya City Art Museum, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, eds. “Kitagawa Tamiji ten.” [Tokyo]: Kitagawa Tamiji Ten Jikkō Iinkai, 1989 (Venues: Nagoya City Art Museum and Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art). [Exh. cat.].
1989: Miwa Hideo, Satō Dōshin, and Yamanashi Emiko. “Kindai nihon bijutsu jiten.” Supervised by Kawakita Michiaki. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1989, 119.
1993: Ōkuma Toshiyuki. ‘Kitagawa Tamiji <Mekishiko 3 dōjo>.’ In “Nihon kara Pari, Nyūyōku e.” Nihon no kindai bijutsu, 8, edited by Yaguchi Kunio, 97–112. Tokyo: Ōtsuki Shoten, 1993.
1996: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, ed. “Kitagawa Tamiji Ten (Kitagawa Tamiji Retrospective).” [Tokyo]: Kitagawa Tamiji Ten Jikkō Iinkai, 1996 (Venues: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and Kasama Nichido Museum of Art). [Exh. cat.].
1997: Kitagawa Tamiji. “Kitagawa Tamiji gashū.” Supervised by Asano Tōru. Tokyo: Nichidō Shuppanbu, 1997.
1998: Kitagawa Tamiji. “Kitagawa Tamiji bijutsu kyōiku ronshū.” 2 vols. Tokyo: Sōfūsha, 1998. [Artists Writing].
2014: Tanaka Keiichi. ‘Kitagawa Tamiji to “Yagai bijutsu gakkō”: Nihonjin gaka no mita mekisiko runesansu (Tamiji Kitagawa y las Escuelas de Pintura al Aire Libre:El Renacimiento Mexicano visto por un pintor japonés).’ “Kiyō. Gengo, bungaku hen(The Journal of the Faculty of Foreign Studies, Aichi Prefectural University. Language and Literature)” 46 (March 2014): 225–243. Nagakute: Aichi Prefectural University.
2018: Saigō Minako. ‘Kitagawa Tamiji no guggenhaimu zaidan shōgakukin shinseisho shōroku, 1936 (Tamiji Kitagawa's Application Abstract for the Guggenheim Fellowship (1936)).’ “Kyōikushi fōramu (Forum on History of Education)” 13 (June 2018): 35–51. Kyoto: Kyōikushi Fōramu, Kyoto.
2019: Tokyo Bunkazai Kenkyūjo (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties). “Kitagawa Tamiji.” Nihon Bijutsu Nenkan Shosai Bukkosha Kiji. Last modified 2019-06-06. (in Japanese). https://www.tobunken.go.jp/materials/bukko/10035.html
2021: Hattori Fumitaka ‘Kitagawa Tamiji to Seto no tōheki.’ “Tōsetsu” 822 (November 2021): 66–72.
2022: Katsuta Kotoe. ‘Kitagawa Tamiji <Akazu tōkō no ie (House of Potter at Akazu)> saikō.’ “Nagoyashi Bijutsukan kenkyū kiyō (Bulletin of Nagoya City Art Museum)” 16 (March 2022): 16–24.
2024: Nagoya City Art Museum, ed. “Kitagawa Tamiji ten: Mekishiko kara Nihon e; Seitan 130 nen kinen (Exhibition 130th Anniversary Kitagawa Tamiji: From Mexico to Japan).” [Nagoya]: Nagoya City Art Museum, 2024 (Venues: Nagoya City Art Museum and Setagaya Art Museum and Kōriyama City Museum of Art). [Exh. cat.]
2025: Tsukada Miki. ‘Tobei zengo no Kitagawa Tamiji: 1910-nendai no Shizuoka, Sanfuranshisuko [San Francisco], Pōtorando [Portland], Nyūyōku [New York].’ “Setagaya Bijutsukan kiyō (Bulletin of the Setagaya Art Museum)” 26 (March 2025): 4–17.

日本美術年鑑 / Year Book of Japanese Art

元二科会会長の洋画家北川民次は、4月26日肺線維症のため愛知県瀬戸市の陶生病院で死去した。享年97。特特なデフォルメによる生命感あふれる作風で知られ、はやくから児童美術教育のすぐれた実践者でもあった北川民次は、明治27(1894)年1月17日静岡県榛原郡に生まれた。生家は農業で製茶業を営み、アメリカへも茶を輸出していた。明治43年県立静岡商業学校を卒業し早稲田大学へ入学したが、大正2年中退しカリフ...

「北川民次」『日本美術年鑑』平成2年版(239-240頁)

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