Emiko TAKENAKA (1929–2011) was a painter based in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, who worked primarily in oils. She focused on flowers, still lifes, and familiar landscapes, placing closely observed subjects in compositions that fill the canvas.
Her work dates from the 1950s onward. Yokohama Museum of Art holds her oil painting "Magnolia" (1953); Hiratsuka Museum of Art holds "Table and Lemon" (1953) and "Thistle" (1955). All three were donated by the artist and are held as works by a painter associated with Yokohama. In April 1961 (Showa 36), she joined twelve other painters, including the Western-style painter Kinuko EMI, in founding the Kanagawa Prefecture Women Artists Association, an organization that provided exhibition opportunities for women artists in the prefecture. The first association exhibition, held in October of that year at Yokohama Takashimaya, opened a setting in which she continued to show and develop her work through subsequent association exhibitions.
In March 1998, she presented the solo exhibition "Emiko Takenaka: Devoted to the Brush, with Dignity and Nobility" at Yokohama Civic Art Gallery. That show prompted her donation of two paintings to Hiratsuka Museum of Art later the same year. Works by her are also in the collection of Yokohama Civic Art Gallery; they were included, for example, in the 2007 "Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Collection Exhibition: Reading Paintings." Through practice rooted in the region and through gifts of her work, she contributed to the continuity of local art culture.
As people change over the years, works also develop shifts and changes with age. The works offered at Untitled range from comparatively recent pieces of about twenty years to older works that have passed through nearly seventy years.
Small scratches, changes in the paint surface, shifts in paper or support—these are not mere deterioration but traces of the time the work has lived through.
We do not value only perfect condition. We hope you will receive each work as a single existence, together with the time it has accumulated.
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Whether a work is framed is noted on each work page. Frame condition varies by work; please contact us in advance if you would like details.
We also accept custom framing matched to the work. As each piece is made individually for the space and work, delivery takes approximately two months.
Framed works include a storage box. Depending on the work, a new box may be made after purchase, which may take several weeks.
