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Toshi Yoshida

Artist

WA-00030176

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WikidataQ2916723 ULAN500341679

MoMA

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Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1983

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MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/6509
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Toshi Yoshida was a Japanese printmaker and painter who worked in woodblock and lithography, combining traditional Japanese printing methods with modernist abstraction. Active in the postwar period, he rendered landscape and figural subjects through bold, simplified forms and restrained color palettes. His practice bridged historical technique and contemporary formal reduction.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago

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Museum of Modern ArtNew York Cleveland Museum of Art

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Artworks (8)

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1972 · color woodcut

Sheet: 58.1 x 43 cm (22 7/8 x 16 15/16 in.); Image: 51.1 x 36.9 cm (20 1/8 x 14 1/2 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Float

1957 · woodcut

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Sea Horses

1954 · Woodcut

composition: 14 5/8 × 9 9/16" (37.2 × 24.3 cm); sheet: 15 7/8 × 10 11/16" (40.4 × 27.2 cm)

composition: 14 3/4 × 9 5/8" (37.4 × 24.5 cm); sheet: 15 15/16 × 10 5/8" (40.5 × 27 cm)

composition: 14 5/8 × 9 5/8" (37.2 × 24.5 cm); sheet: 16 × 11 1/8" (40.6 × 28.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Number 2

1952 · Woodcut

composition: 14 3/4 × 9 3/4" (37.5 × 24.7 cm); sheet: 16 × 10 7/8" (40.7 × 27.6 cm)

composition: 14 3/4 × 9 13/16" (37.5 × 25 cm); sheet: 16 5/16 × 11 1/8" (41.5 × 28.3 cm)

composition: 14 9/16 × 9 1/2" (37 × 24.2 cm); sheet: 15 15/16 × 10 5/8" (40.5 × 27 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Artwork sources (2)

8 published of 14 catalogued · 2 with image

MoMA
6 publishedof 12 catalogued2 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
2 published

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2 entries · 1 sources

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1972 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Float
1957 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum of Modern Art Cleveland Museum of Art

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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Cleveland Museum of Art

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Group Exhibition Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now

New York · 1983