TOMIYAMA TAEKO

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Description

Blood Red Plains Burned by the Fires of War
Oil on canvas
51 7/8 x 67" (FRAMED)
2008
Blood Red Plains Burned by the Fires of War is part of the series, Hiruko and the Puppeteers (2008), and is one of the largest and most ambitious of the artist's career sustaining her longstanding focus on transnational history, warfare, and Japan's brutal colonization of its Asian neighbors. Artist's signature at lower right.

Following Japanese naming customs, last name is provided first.

Date

2008

Creator

TOMIYAMA TAEKO
b. Japan, 1921-2021

Source

Gift of Sakata Natsume in memory of her mother Tomiyama Taeko

Identifier

2025.001.008

Collection

Citation

TOMIYAMA TAEKO and b. Japan, 1921-2021, “TOMIYAMA TAEKO,” UCSB ADA Museum Omeka, accessed March 18, 2025, http://art-collections.museum.ucsb.edu/items/show/17114.