Chiyu Uemae, (Japanese, b. 1920)
Prior to joining the Gutai, Chiyu Uemae studied nan-ga – the southern school of Chinese painting – as self-taught, then shifts to oil painting. Uemae won the first prize at the annual exhibition of the Niki-kai, an artist organisation formed in 1947, and had his first solo show at a public library in Manazuru in 1951.