Background
Kawabata was born in Tokyo in 1911.
Kawabata was born in Tokyo in 1911.
He graduated from Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts in 1934. He studied in Paris and Italy between 1937-1939.
Starting in 1950 he taught art at the Tam University, Tokyo. He was a professor of art there until 1955. At the New School for Social Research in New York City he taught for three years until 1961.
Having spent two years in Japan he returned to New New York
He painted in an Abstract Expressionist style in the 1950s and in a colour field style after the 1960s. Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Museo Premio Lissone, Milan
National Museum, Tokyo
Guide LeNoci, Milan
1977, 20-31 December, Group Exhibition at the Betty Parsons Gallery.
Mino Argento, Calvert Coggeshall, Richard Tuttle, Ruth Vollmer, Helene Aylon and Cleve Gray (among others)
Art News, March 1967, Lawrence Campbell
House & Garden, February 1968 (Painting Reproduced)
Arts Magazine, December 1968- january
1969
Times Magazine, January 24, 1969
Art News, March 1969 Lawrence Campbell
Studio International, February 1970
Art News, March 1971 Carter Ratcliff
Arts Magazine, March 1971 (painting reproduced).