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Plate from TORONTO 20
1965 · Drypoint mounted on paper
composition: 7 7/16 × 9" (18.9 × 22.8 cm); sheet: 26 1/16 × 20 1/16" (66.2 × 50.9 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Kazuo Nakamura
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1962–1963
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Kazuo Nakamura was a Canadian abstract painter whose compositions employed grids, bands of color, and tonal shifts to explore spatial harmony and contemplative restraint. Working in oil and acrylic from the postwar period onward, his practice sustained an engagement with modernist abstraction and the formal possibilities of the canvas surface, prioritizing color relationships over representation.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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