These pictures can be seen in her current survey at the New Museum in Manhattan, along with numerous other works in Minagawa frames. Minagawa taught himself lacquering to achieve the desired effect, framing what would become Ms. Sarah Charlesworth, a member of the Pictures Generation, posed a special challenge in the 1980s: Wanting her photographs and her frames to fuse into a single object, she required frames to match the gleaming, undiluted backgrounds (in red, green and blue) of her big, glossy pictures. Over the years he gained the loyalty and trust of hundreds of artists, including Chuck Close, William Wegman, Jennifer Bartlett, Christian Marclay, Elizabeth Peyton and Dan Colen, as well as the estates of Roy Lichtenstein and Alice Neel. The painter Elizabeth Murray, who required shaped frames for her shaped drawings, was his first customer. He had taught himself the rudiments of his craft by taking apart and reassembling old frames. Minagawa opened a framing shop, Minagawa Art Lines, in a storefront on Kenmare Street in Lower Manhattan in 1976. The photographer Jessica Craig-Martin, his stepdaughter, said that the cause was esophageal cancer.ĭespite having had no formal training in frame-making, Mr. Yasuo Minagawa, a framer known for working closely with several generations of exacting New York artists while always pursuing the ideal of a “perfect frame,” died on July 4 in Manhattan.
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