Utagawa Kuninaga (歌川國長) (artist ca 1779 – 1827)
Kayanosuke (nickname 梅千之助)Ichiunsai (go 一雲斎)
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Biography:
"Painter. Born in Edo and lived in Mita, later Shimbashi Kinroku-cho. The most senior pupil of Toyokuni I after Kunimasa. Active after 1806 doing actor prints, perspective prints, paintings for lanterns and a small number of hanging scrolls of beauties." (This information is taken directly from the British Museum web site.)
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According to the Art Institute of Chicago Kuninaga died in 1827. Christie's gives his date of death as 1829. Some sources give his date of birth as 1789 or 1780.
Kuninaga's works are in many prominent museum collections. An example in the Art Institute in Chicago is from a sub-genre referred to as an Oranda-e or a print in the Dutch (Holland) style. Other collections include Harvard, the Chazen Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Achenbach Foundation, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Auckland Art Gallery, the Mead Art Museum, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Tokyo National Museum, Waseda University and Ritsumeikan University.
