Kusaka, Kenji (Japanese, born 1936), Untitled, 1975, color woodcut, 10.75 x 7.75 inches, pencil signed and numbered, matted and framed 17 x 14 inches. Provenance: From the estate of Western Pennsylvania artist Charles Battaglini. Kusaka Kenji was born on a farm in Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture in 1936. At a young age he studied print making for five years with Nagare Koji (b. 1905), a member of the Nihon Hanga-in (Japanese Print Institute) and a student of Okada Saburosuke (1869-1939), who taught in Okayama. At some point, he also studied with Munakata Shiko (1903-1975). Kusaka's work is represented in the collections of The British Museum, London; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum; Colorado State Museum of Modern Art, Denver; Kanagawa Prefectural Museum; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Cleveland Museum of Art; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Art Gallery of New South Wales; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Honolulu Museum of Art.