Masaaki Tanaka was born in Setagaya, Tokyo, in 1947, the eldest son of Akio Tanaka, a Western-style painter, and his wife, Toshiko. Tanaka attended the Musashino Art University, majoring in Oil Painting. His work in oils reflected the trends of the time eloquently. He educated himself in silk-screen printing after learning wood-block printmaking and stone lithography, while making repeated visits to the United States and Europe.

For ten years - l982-l99l - his works were featured each week on the covers of Japan's most famous weekly magazine, Shukan Shincho, which has a circulation of well over one-half million. Tanaka and his work is well known throughout Japan and now Tennessee Players is proud to make Tanaka's serigraphs available to art connoiseurs everywhere.

In the United States Tanaka's works have been exhibited in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas, Ft. Worth and Hawaii. An exhibition held in Plano, Texas, attracted more than twenty-two hundred art patrons in a four-week period. His next show in America is scheduled to be held at the beautiful Botanic Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee. in March, 2002, when the cherry blossoms will be in bloom.

When President Ronald Reagan visited Japan in 1983, one of the gifts which the Japanese Government presented the President was a Signed, Limited Edition serigraph by Masaaki Tanaka.
Tanaka cutting a paper stencil with a special knife. He wears glasses when he cuts the small part.


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