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Joe Price, American collector of Edo-era Japan paintings, dies at 93

His love of Japanese art led to a rediscovery of painter Ito Jakuchu

Art collector Joe Price helped draw renewed attention to Edo master Ito Jakuchu. (Photo by Wataru Ito)

OSAKA -- American art enthusiast Joe Price, known for his collection of works by Edo-period painter Ito Jakuchu, died Thursday at his home in California. He was 93.

Unbound by tradition or the idea of artistic pedigree, Price used his own American sensibility to collect Japanese paintings, helping to bring fresh attention to the 18th-century artist, widely known as Jakuchu.

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