Sumi
In the 1960s, Tsutakawa’s close friend and renown artist Mark Tobey, who had studied Asian sumi painting in China and Japan, encouraged Tsutakawa to use his talents to pursue Japanese painting techniques he had learned as a child in Japan.
Olympic Foothills 1961
17 1/2” x 22 1/4”
Kachess Lake Bottle 1974
36 1/4” x 60 1/4”
Black Birds Study 1975
13” x 20 1/4”
Mount Rainier Sumi 1975
26” x 36”
Flounder
20” x 26”
Five Squash
16” x 22”
Two Lobsters 1977
Sumi Quirk 1986
23 1/2” x 38”
Winter Forest Sumi 1987
52 3/4” x 26 1/4”