Kyohei Inukai was born in Chicago and studied at the Chicago Art Institute, National Academy of Design and Art Students League in New York City. He had his first solo-show at the California Arts Club in 1934. He worked as a painter, printmaker and sculptor. Over the course of his career, he employed a variety of styles, but is best known for his later compositions of abstract shapes and patterns, mostly in glowing reds, blues and purples, of which the present screenprint is a classic example. Referring back to his Japanese heritage, Inukai also worked as a poet and wrote haiku.
Kyohei Inukai's work is represented in several inportant public collections in the USA, including the Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York; Portland Museum of Fine Art, Oregon; Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts; and the Wichita University Museum of Fine Art, Kansas.