[Kuniyoshi Painting] Japanese-born Yasuo Kuniyoshi immigrated to the United States as a teenager. He became an artist, schooled primarily in the Western tradition. He incorporated Renaissance, American primitive, and modern influences into his work.

Kuniyoshi painted Look, It Flies a year after World War II had ended. He placed this image of a woman in a vast landscape filled with the implications of war. Kuniyoshi's inclusion of himself peering into the scene reveals how the artist observes the world from a distance.

Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

Look, It Flies, 1946, by Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953), oil on canvas

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