Signed at right and left Gokyō ga (Painted by Gokyō); sealed Gokyō Kobayashi was a pupil of the Kyoto Shijō painter Imao Keinen. He was active first in Kyoto, but...
Signed at right and left Gokyō ga (Painted by Gokyō); sealed Gokyō
Kobayashi was a pupil of the Kyoto Shijō painter Imao Keinen. He was active first in Kyoto, but then moved to Tokyo in 1896, where he became a mainstay of the Shijō School in the capital. He is best known for bird-and-flower paintings in the Keinen manner. Exhibited regularly at national art exhibitions and frequently published in late-Meiji issues of Bijutsu gahō (The Magazine of Art). His work were primarily scroll paintings and no other pair of screens can be found in his recorded works.
Published Works: Dog, Bijutsugahō (Fine Arts Magazine), January 1900 Fox, Bijutsugahō (Fine Arts Magazine), November 1900 Winter Blast, Bijutsugahō (Fine Arts Magazine), September 1902 Chrysanthemum and Fowls,Bijutsugahō (Fine Arts Magazine), November 1904 Golden Pheasants, Bijutsugahō (Fine Arts Magazine), May 1905 Wild Geese, Bijutsugahō (Fine Arts Magazine), July 1907 Snowy Morning, Bijutsugahō (Fine Arts Magazine), January 1908
Exhibitions and Prizes: 1890: Third Naikoku Kangyō Hakurankai (National Industrial Promotion Exhibition) 1895: Nihon Seinen Kaiga Kyōshinkai (Kyoto Youth Painting Support Association), Glories of a Clear Autumn Day, Third Prize 1895: Fourth Naikoku Kangyō Hakurankai (National Industrial Promotion Exhibition), 1903: Fifth Naikoku Kangyō Hakurankai (National Industrial Promotion Exhibition) 1900: Nihon Seinen Kaiga Kyōshinkai (Kyoto Youth Painting Support Association) 1900: Paris Exposition Universelle, Dog 1904: St. Louis World's Fair, Chickens in an Autumn Farmyard, Silver Medal 1907: Nihon Bijutsu Kyōkai Ten (Japan Art Association Exhibition), Snowy Morning, Second Prize 1913: Seventh Bunten National Art Exhibition, Willows