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Asian Art
Artist: Fujino Sachiko, Japanese, born 1950
White Form (Shiro no keishō)
2006
Stoneware with white slip
13 × 10 5/8 × 10 1/4 in. (33.02 × 26.988 × 26.035 cm)
Gift of the Rubin-Ladd Foundation under the bequest of Ester R. Portnow
2009.71.3a-b
Upon graduating from a design school in Kyoto, Fujino Sachiko embarked on a career as a fashion designer and fabric dyer, but she began studying ceramics under Tsuboi Asuka, a pioneering twentieth-century woman ceramist. Fujino’s earlier training in textiles is reflected in her vessels; for example, in the way the clay is “tied: at the top of this work to resemble cloth. She uses a specialized airbrush to spray slip or colored glaze onto her textured ceramics, creating subtle tones and shades. Her sculptures express softness, volume, and a nuanced physicality.
Geography:
Japan
Culture:
Japanese
Period:
Heisei era (1989–2019)
Classification:
Sculpture
Provenance:
Joan B. Mirviss, Japanese Fine Art, NY; purchased by The Rubin-Ladd Foundation, Georgetown, Conn. and New York; gift in 2009 to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions 2009,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009): 152–53, ill.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.