#rayyoshida

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Ray Yoshida

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The Ray Yoshida papers have been fully digitized and are available to view online: https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/ray-yoshida-papers-16081

Ray Yoshida (1930-2009) was a painter, collagist, and educator in Chicago, Illinois.  The papers include biographical material, personal correspondence, notebooks and writings, teaching records, personal business records, printed material, source material, photographs, sketchbooks, artwork by Yoshida and others, and scrapbooks. Items within the collection also document Yoshida's personal interest in collecting folk art and artifacts.

Images: drawing, comic book clippings, photo of Chicago signage, and photos of Ray Yoshida are all from the Ray Yoshida papers at the Archives of American Art.  

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Hey everyone! I’m trying to help my dear friend Zeus raise enough money to get him out here in March! It’ll be for our Spring Break, which happens to land on the same week! We have been friends for over four years, and we’ve only met in person once and for a very short time about two years back. We’re both doing whatever we can to make some extra cash while in school, but our terms have both been crazy. Not to mention Zeus has just gotten himself out of a toxic household to attend school, so he has been supporting himself entirely.

It would mean the world to us both if people donated and shared this post around. If you can’t afford to donate, then please reblog❤

https://www.youcaring.com/rayisaak-749974

[archivesofamericanart]

Chicago artist and educator Ray Yoshida’s papers are currently being processed and prepared for digitization!  He was a painter, collagist, and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Yoshida was a member and mentor of the Chicago Imagists, a group of representational artists whose work is influenced by Surrealism and sources traditionally considered outside of the art world, such as pop culture and comics.  His papers include biographical material, correspondence, writings, notebooks, teaching records, personal business records, printed material, source material, photographs, sketchbooks, artwork, and scrapbooks.