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Yookan WestfieldOrange Cat's Thoughts (original painting by renowned Japanese American painter)2022
2022
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Yookan Westfield
Orange Cat's Thoughts, 2022
Oil on linen painting
24 × 24 × 2/5 inches
This is a unique work
Signed twice: Hand signed on the front; bears artist's handwritten label on the back
This is a gorgeous cat painting by New York based Japanese artist Yookan Westfield, who is well known and beloved internationally for her exquisite paintings of cats. The present work was exhibited in the Summer of 2022 at the Prince Street Gallery
In 2020, Yookan Westfield was chosen by art critic David Cohen, editor and publisher of Artcritical magazine as one of the winners of the "Pets of the Pandemic" art competition to benefit Best Friends Animal Society. This unique, oil on canvas is hand signed on the lower recto, and bears a label on the verso, handwritten and signed by the artist. For art collectors who are serious cat lovers, Yookan's cat paintings are a must-have. She already had an almost cult-like following in Japan, where she exhibited widely in galleries and museums, before she emigrated to the United States on a genius visa, accorded because of her extraordinary artistic talent. Westfield continues to exhibit regularly in New York and Japan. The present work, "Orange Cat's Thoughts", celebrating the artist's own cat name Orange (a big tomcat), who has served as the artists companion and muse throughout the pandemic. Here orange cat sits against the New York harbor.
Westfield studied painting at the New York Studio School of Painting & Sculpture under the Dean of the School, renowned painter, Graham Nickson, and she received her MFA from Musashino Art University in Tokyo and her BFA Kanazawa Art University, Japan. This is a gorgeous painting that would look beautiful in any home. The cat-loving collector who acquires it will be delighted.
About Yookan Westfield:
Yookan Westfield was born in Nanao-City, Japan and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. She earned a BFA from Kanazawa Art University and an MFA from Musashino Art University in Tokyo. She graduated from the New York Studio School, 2007. Westfield received the Dokuritsu Prize in Dokuritsu Exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Japan in 1997 and 1998. She has held six solo shows at the Ginza Surugadai Gallery, Tokyo since 1984.
- Courtesy of Prince Street Gallery
- Creator:Yookan Westfield (1953, Japanese)
- Creation Year:2022
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)
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- Condition:Fine original studio condition.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745213341752
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