Mambo B

吉田千鶴子 Chizuko Yoshida, artist

1924–2017

Mambo B, 1956

Where object was made: Japan

Material/technique: woodcut; mica

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 580 x 420 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 22 13/16 x 16 9/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 580 x 420 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 22 13/16 x 16 9/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: R. Charles and Mary Margaret Clevenger Fund

Accession number: 2008.0041

On display: Marshall Balcony

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Brush, Block, and Blood: Three Generations of Yoshida Women Printmakers

In the early 1950s, Chizuko began translating the rhythms of modern music—especially mambo and jazz—into bold visual forms. Influenced by her participation in Onchi Kōshirō’s (1891–1955) creative print seminars and her marriage to fellow artist Hodaka Yoshida in 1953, she helped shift the Yoshida family legacy from representational to experimental art. In dynamic works such as Mambo A and Sounds in the Night, syncopated lines and vibrant color harmonies evoke the pulse of Latin dance and postwar modernism.