Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 140th birthday of Uemura Shoen, a female artist from Japan whose important works were in Meiki, Taisho and early Showa period painting.
The name is actially a pseudonym for Uemura Tsune, an artist born in Kyoto whose paintings of beautiful women still attract art fans today.
There are dedicated Pinterest pages for her work, which is pretty impressive, and plenty of her paintings can be seen at the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art in Japan. There are some good write-ups on her on various art gallery websites, but this one from Sakura gallery seems the most apt.
She died in 1949, and in her later years Shoen worked on patriotic pieces as Japan fought in the Pacific leg of World War II.
She was given the Order of Culture, the first woman to be awarded it, just one year before her death
This followed a period when she began painting large works, including several now considered her greatest masterpieces, like Spring and Autumn (1930), Jo-no-mai (1936), and Soshi-arai Komachi (1937).
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