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Curator Lawrence Alloway visiting the Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, to choose works for the Guggenheim International Award (summer 1963).


Tanaka standing in front of the first floor window of the office building of Bijutsu Shuppan-sha (Yotsuya, Tokyo, March 1966). The painting on the window was completed in May 1963.

Tanaka making Round on Sand, (1968).


2nd Gutai Art Exhibition (Ohara Kaikan hall, Tokyo, October 1956). Tanaka installing Electric Dress.


2nd Gutai Art on the Stage (Asahi Kaikan hall, Osaka, April 4, 1958). Tanaka performing Shining Disc and Clothes.


Tanaka standing in front of her work Untitled (1964). Tanaka received an excellence award for this work at the 6th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, May 1964).