Kansas Samurai

Artist Roger Yukata Shimomura (American, born 1939)

Publisher The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (American, founded 1979)

Date2004

MediumLithograph on Arches Cover white paper

DimensionsImage: 38 3/4 × 26 inches (98.43 × 66.04 cm)
Sheet: 44 3/4 × 31 inches (113.67 × 78.74 cm)

Credit LineGift of C. Richard and Evelyn Belger

Object number2023.40.59

SignedSigned below the image: R Shimomura 2004

MarkingsSigned below the image: LLW IMP Kansas Samurai

Edition/State/ProofLLW IMP

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DescriptionHead of a man in three-quarter profile facing left. He wears a deep red robe bordered in black and a black wig. There are red makeup lines around his eyes, extended black eyebrows, and his chin is outlined in blue. He wears round glasses, a mustache and short beard. He holds a sword hilt in his proper right hand. The blue and white curved sword extends up the left edge of the page. The background is pale blue with the outlines of cartoon figures drawn in black: counterclockwise from the lower right: a profile of Goofy facing right; Donald Duck facing right; a back view of Dick Tracy in a brimmed hat facing left; the profiles of two unidentified men; and Popeye.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Lawrence Lithography Workshop: Highlights from the Archive. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. December 21, 2024 - June 22, 2025.

Provenance

C. Richard Belger and Evelyn Craft Belger, Kansas City, MO;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2013.

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