Haruo Matsushita1903~1933 松下春雄

Matsushita Haruo (March 2, 1903 – December 31, 1933) was a Japanese yoga painter from Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, active in the Taisho through early Showa eras. After studying at the Hitomi Yoga School in 1918, he moved to Tokyo in 1921 and trained at the Hongo Painting Institute under Okada Saburosuke. Following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, he returned to Nagoya and co-founded the art group “Sansation” with Kito Nabesaburo and others, providing a venue for young Western-style painters. He initially excelled at watercolor, with his first acceptance to the 5th Teiten in 1924, and shifted his focus to oil painting around 1928. He died of leukemia in 1933 at the young age of 30.