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Bumpei Usui"Shanties in the Bronx, New York" Bumpei Usui, Japanase-American City Landscape1933
1933
$12,000
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€10,469.41
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About the Item
Bumpei Usui
Shanties in the Bronx, 1933
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
14 x 20 inches
Provenance:
The artist's estate
Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York
Arlene Berman, New York
Bumpei Usui was born in Nagano, Japan, in 1889. He told a story of entering the United States by literally jumping off a ship and swimming, which no one ever had any reason to believe wasn't true. In the 1940's he owned and operated a frame shop on 13th Street just east of Fifth Avenue. The headquarters of the Communist Party of America (1919-1946) was next door. During World War II, Usui was not interned but was regularly questioned by FBI agents. Some sources say the frame shop was at 5 East 14th Street, but this is not the recollection of his nephew, George Howard.
Usui, as he was known to family and friends, was not a prolific artist because he worked full time in his frame shop. Through his framing, he came to know many famous artists in New York in the 1940’s and 1950’s. He framed the work of Milton Avery among other peers.
He was a personal friend of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, a well known Japanese-American artist. A portrait that he painted of him in Kuniyoshi's studio is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
Usui had an extensive collection of Samurai swords. In March of 1978, the apartment he lived in Greenwich with his wife was burglarized, and he and his wife, Frances Pratt, were tied up and held at gunpoint while most of the collection was stolen. He sold the balance of the collection at auction through Sotheby’s in January of 1979.
In 2014, the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired The Furniture Factory from a New York gallery that had the painting for sale at a price at $150,000. The painting was acquired not for cash but in trade for other works of art from the Metropolitan’s collection. The painting in now on exhibit in the Contemporary Art Galleries of the Met.
He divorced his first wife, Lucille Bumpei, in 1943. He married Frances Elizabeth Pratt in 1955 and resided with her at 31-33 West 12th Street in Greenwich Village until he died. He is buried with Frances Pratt Usui in Nicholson Cemetery in Nicholson, Pennsylvania. A tombstone designed by his wife, Frances, and made by Bob Dombrowski, called "Spirit Gate" marks their grave.
- Creator:Bumpei Usui (1898 - 1994)
- Creation Year:1933
- Dimensions:Height: 19 in (48.26 cm)Width: 25 in (63.5 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1841211694482
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