Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953)

In 1917, Yasuo Kuniyoshi met art patron Hamilton Easter Field, who invited the young Japanese artist and his girlfriend Katherine Schmidt for a summer at his artist's colony in Ogunquit, Maine. Living and working in the fishermen's shacks at Perkins Cove over the next few summers, Kuniyoshi created some of the great paintings of his early career, including the present work of a local fisherman.