ARTIST: Yamada Baske (Minnesota, Japanese, 1869 - 1934)
NAME: River Landscape with Boat
YEAR: 1913
MEDIUM: watercolor on board
CONDITION: Some damage to upper left corner. Some age toning.
SIGHT SIZE: 20 x 28 inches / 50 x 71 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed
SIGNATURE: lower left
NAME VARIANTS: Fukawa Jin Basuke
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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SKU#: 119224
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BIOGRAPHY:
The painter now best known as Yamada Baske was born "Fukawa Jin Basuke" in Tokyo in 1869 and first studied art at the Furoko School, Tokyo. After coming to America in 1885 he continued his studies at the Art Students' League in New York; at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; and from 1897 to 1899 at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art (the March 1907 Philadelphia Museum bulletin described him as having been a "brilliant student"). Among his teachers were William Merritt Chase; Herman F. Deigendesch (1858-1921); Farber; and Mr. Stratton. Later he organized the "Basuke Sketching Class" of Yokohama, and also taught for a time at the Tokyo Fine Art School (now known as Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku) where his exhibited work won prizes and honorable mentions. Basuke exhibited at the Beard Art Galleries in Minneapolis, Minnesota, attracting the attention of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts, for whom he began teaching watercolor classes in 1907. His hallmark misty landscapes became (and remain) his most popular subjects. Baske died in 1934.