Chihiro Iwasaki, Pat My Head, 1971
Children represented a consistent theme in Chihiro Iwasaki’s artwork throughout her life. Her artistic ability, which enabled her to accurately depict the different ages of babies down to the month, along with the motherly love she nurtured through the raising of her child, combined to create works that deftly captured children at their liveliest. This exhibit traces the transitions in Chihiro’s depictions of scenes featuring children through sketches modeled after her son, picture magazines from the middle period of her career, popular illustrations of children playing in different seasons, images of young girls that overlap with Chihiro’s own appearance, and the picture book Pochi no Kita Umi (What’s Fun Without a Friend?). The exhibition will also focus on Chihiro’s work with pediatrician Michio Matsuda on such child-rearing works as Watashi wa Akachan (I Am a Baby) and Ikuji no Hyakka (Encyclopedia of Child-Rearing).
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