Gashū Ogura Yuki (A collection of works by Yuki Ogura). Edited by Natsuko Kusanagi. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 1993.
→Ogura, Yuki. “Tōtō ekaki ni natte shimatta (In the end, I became a painter).” In Ogura Yuki gashū: Gagyō shichijūnen. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1986.
→Ogura, Yuki. Gashitsu no uchisoto (The art studio inside and out). Tokyo: Yomiuri Shinbunsha, 1984.
Yuki Ogura, Hiratsuka Museum of Art, October–November 2018
→Yuki Ogura: Ten Years After Her Death, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, February–April 2010; Utsunomiya Museum of Art, April–May 2010
→Yuki Ogura, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, August–October 2002; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, October–November 2002
Japanese Nihonga painter.
Yuki Ogura was a Japanese Nihonga (Japanese-style) painter, who remained active until her death in 2000 at the age of 105. Though many of her female contemporaries abandoned their painting activities due to the difficulties of striking a balance with family life, Yuki Ogura was that rare individual who was able to establish a solid reputation and position within the Japanese art world, as demonstrated by the fact that in 1980 she became only the second woman painter to receive the Bunka Kunshō [Order of Culture].
Yuki Ogura graduated from the Nara Women’s Higher Normal School (now Nara Women’s University) with honours in 1917 and subsequently established herself as a teacher. She had only taken painting classes while enrolled at the university, but following a period of self-study, she began an apprenticeship with the Nihonga painter Yasuda Yukihiko (1884–1978). After that, she sought admittance to the public exhibition of the Nihon Bijutsuin [Japan Art Institute], of which Yasuda was a member, and was selected to participate for the first time in 1926 at the age of 31. In 1932, she became the first woman to be elected to serve as a member of that organisation.
A biography produced as part of the “Women Artists in Japan: 19th – 21st century” programme
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