Tadashi Nakayama (artist)

Tadashi Nakayama (中山 正, Nakayama Tadashi; born 1927 Niigata, Niigata, died 2014) was a Japanese woodblock print artist, working in a style that combines influences from traditional Japanese ukiyo-e prints and Western painting.

He studied oil painting at Tama Art College but left in 1947.^[1][2][3]

From 1962 to 1965 he lived in Milan, Italy and then England.^[1][4] He taught at Bath Academy of Arts.^[1]

Motifs in his work include butterflies, horses, cranes, and girls with long flowing hair.^{[1][5][6][7][8]} Some of his later pieces were inspired by Persian, Byzantine and Renaissance styles.^[3]

His catalogue raisonné is Tadashi Nakayama: His Life and Work, by Kappy Hendricks and Marshall Hendricks.^[5][9]

His work is held in several museums, including the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco,^{[10][failed verification]} the Minneapolis Institute of Art,^[11] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,^[12] the Santa Barbara Museum of Art,^[13] the National Museum of Asian Art,^[14] the Carnegie Museum of Art,^[15] the Seattle Art Museum,^{[16][failed verification]} the University of Michigan Museum of Art,^[7] the Brooklyn Museum,^[17] the Portland Art Museum,^[6] the Indianapolis Museum of Art,^[8] the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco,^[18] the Harvard Art Museums,^[19] and the Honolulu Museum of Art.^{[20][failed verification]}