Posts in Category: september 19

Hiroshi Yoshida

On July 27, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, Japanese, september 19

Hiroshi Yoshida, September 19, 1876 – April 5, 1950, was a Japanese painter and printmaker. Born Hiroshi Ueda in Kurume, he was adopted in 1891 by his art teacher, Yoshida Kasaburō. He studied painting in Kyoto with Tamura Sōritsu and then Western-style painting at Koyama Shōtarō’s Fudōsha school in Tokyo.

Yoshida joined the Meiji Fine Arts Society and helped establish the Taiheiyō Gakai (Pacific Art Society) in 1902. He traveled in the United States and Europe from 1899, published his first woodblock print in 1920, and later founded the Japan Mountain Painting Association. His sons Tōshi Yoshida and Hodaka Yoshida also became artists.

Yoshida’s work is held by the British Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum.

Arthur Rackham

On July 17, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, English, september 19

Arthur Rackham, September 19, 1867 – September 6, 1939, was an English illustrator and painter born in London. He studied at the City of London School and the Lambeth School of Art.

Rackham worked as a book and magazine illustrator and became one of the best-known British illustrators of the early twentieth century. His illustrated books include Rip Van Winkle, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, and The Romance of King Arthur.

Rackham worked in pen and ink, watercolor, and book illustration. He died in Limpsfield, Surrey, in 1939.