BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Sekido T. Yoshida

1894 - 1965

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Sekido T. Yoshida was born in Tokyo, Japan, and was noted as a "Japanese artist residing in Vancouver" in a 1921 newspaper review. He exhibited in the 1921 and 1922 Annual Exhibitions of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts, held at the Vancouver School Board offices on Hamilton Street.

Sekido exhibited five artworks at the Vancouver Exhibition in 1932.

Aparently the artist moved to the United States, where at one point he did artwork commissioned by the US government Works Progress Administration (WPA) program. He is also mentioned in online documents in Oregon and California.

A book on Yoshida was written by Arnold Genthe and published in 1928.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION LOCATION
1931 Oct. 1 - 7 Solo exhibition B.C. Manufacturer's Assoc.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1921 Sept. 19 - 24 BCSFA   13th Annual Exhibition Flowers
The Late Autumn
1922 Sept. 16 - 23 BCSFA   14th Annual Exhibition Chrysanthemums
(loaned by B. McEvoy
1932 Aug. 29 - Sept. 5 VanExh   Exhibition Morning Breeze
Seattle Harbour
Granite Rock
Apple Tree and Hawk
Bamboo and Sparrow

References

ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES (refer to AIC82)

(not in BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS IN CANADA)

https://app.pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app?rID=17744&fID=2&lang=en&qlang=en&pID=1120&ps=50&sort=AM_ASC

Clippings

"There are two panels by Sekido Yoshida, a Japanese artist residing in Vancouver, possessing a charm and distinction belonging to the older chivalry of Japan before the veneer of Western civilization was adopted in that country and its ideals subjected to Teutonic corruption. The work has the purity of line and the imagination of Hokusai and a delight of coloring that is very arresting. His treatment of the common lupine in "Flowers" (90) puts that bloom in the garden of the gods.
      From "Pictures at B.C. Fine Arts" by J. Butterfield
      Vancouver Province, September 19 1921, page 12

"The exhibition of Japanese art from the brush of Sekido Yoshida, which opened Saturday in the B.C. Manufacturer's exhibition rooms, corner of Cordova and Cambie Streets, was also an initial inauguration of the room in which the B.C. Art League will shortly begin their permanent art gallery of worthwhile paintings. ... "
      From "By the Way in Art" per B.C. Art League
      Vancouver Province, Thursday October 6 1921, page 12


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