Jan Into Feb

Painting

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Jan Into Feb

Entry/Object ID

2014.91

Description

Nonrepresentational geometric shapes painted in vibrant red and green-toned colors with warm-toned gradients

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil on Canvas

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Art Acquisition Endowment in honor of Louise Lincoln

Made/Created

Artist

Ito, Miyoko

Date made

1980

Ethnography

Notes

North America United States Chicago

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Transcription

graphite TL of V

Notes

Inscription Type: "Jan Into Feb"

Transcription

graphite TC of V

Notes

Inscription Type: "Miyoko Ito"

Transcription

graphite TR of V

Notes

Inscription Type: "Top/top"

Transcription

"Miyoko Ito/ Jan Into Feb/1980/Oil on canvas/47x39 inches"

Notes

Inscription Type: Carl Hammer Gallery label

Transcription

Artist Exhibited: 1975 Whitney Biennial/JJ3

Notes

Inscription Type: Carl Hammer Gallery label

Transcription

"Miyoko Ito, Jan Into Feb/1980/Oil on canvas/47x39 inches/ITO P27"

Notes

Inscription Type: VW Gallery label

Notes

Inscription Type: Exhibition "Miyoko Ito" at VW Berlin, 11.09.2012 - 27.10.2012

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Class

PAINTINGS

Dimensions

Dimension Description

frame

Width

39 in

Depth

3/4 in

Length

47 in

Exhibition

DPAM Collects: Happy Little Trees and Other Recent Acquisitions

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

Miyoko Ito (American, 1918 – 1983) Jan Into Feb, 1980 Oil on canvas Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, in honor of Louise Lincoln 2014.91 Many of Miyoko Ito’s early works from the late 1940s and 1950s recreate interior scenes and still lifes. Her landscapes were portrayed through window frames—as with this later work, which radiates her signature palette of deepening sanguine reds and glowing hues of orange. Born in the U.S. to Japanese parents, Ito was imprisoned in an American internment camp in the midst of her undergraduate studies at University of California, Berkley during World War II. After her release in 1943, she attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she shifted her medium from watercolor to oil painting and developed her unique abstract style. For Ito, painting was a way of problem-solving and escape. “Every time I have a problem, I go deeper and deeper into painting. I have no place to take myself except painting.”