Painter George Miyasaki is among the most accomplished artists of his time. While the artist was understated in person, Miyasaki's talent spoke for itself; the prodigious mastery of color and form in his paintings and prints immediately set him apart from the generation of artists contending with the legacy of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1950s. Consequently, he rose to prominence early: Miyasaki was selected to appear in multiple international Bienniale exhibitions, printed two profoundly influential lithograph editions for Willem de Kooning, taught at CCAC and Stanford University, received an exhaustive list of awards including the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, and worked at Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles and Atelier 17 in Paris – all by the age of twenty-seven.