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ID: 500120601 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500120601			Record Type: Person

Kawara, On (Japanese conceptual artist, 1932-2014, active in the United States)

Note: The conceptual artist is best known for his “Today,” or date paintings, in which dates are rendered on canvas uniformly in white on backgrounds of red, blue, gray, or black.

Names:
	Kawara, On (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
	On Kawara (V,display,LC)
	河原温 (U)

Nationalities:
	Japanese (preferred)
	American
	Asian

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	painter
	draftsman
	conceptual artist
	photographer

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Kariya (Aichi, Japan) (inhabited place) Died: New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

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Kawara, On (I)

Biographies:

(Japanese conceptual artist, 1932-2014, active in the United States) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Japanese artist, born 1933) ..... [BHA]
(Japanese conceptual artist born 1933) ..... [GRLPA]
(Oriental artist, 20th cent.) ..... [WCP]
(Westernised Oriental artist, 20th century) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(Japanese painter) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Japanese artist, 1933-2014) ..... [MoMA]
(Japanese conceptual artist, 1932-2014) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

河原温 ........	[GRL]
........	Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) n 85200387

Kawara, On ........	[BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
......................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
......................	Goldstein and Rorimer, Reconsidering the Object of Art (1995) 144
......................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2009M5
......................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
......................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
......................	Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) n 85200387
......................	RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
......................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 43662
......................	Smith, On Kawara, Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81, New York Times (2014) obit.
......................	Witt Library, Authority files

On Kawara ........	[GRISC, GRL, MoMA, VP, WL-Courtauld]
....................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
....................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 940004
....................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................	Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) n 85200387


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Smith, On Kawara, Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81, New York Times (2014)

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