Chiura Obata - Smithsonian American Art Museum
Chiura Obata (1885-1975) was one of the most significant Japanese American artists working on the West Coast in the last century. Born in Okayama, Japan, Obata emigrated to the United States in 1903 and embarked on a seven-decade career that saw the enactment of anti-immigration laws and the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World ...
Chiura Obata: American Modern - Smithsonian American Art …
Nov 27, 2019 · Chiura Obata (1885 – 1975) ranks among the most significant California-based artists and Japanese American cultural leaders of the last century. Born in Okayama, Japan, Obata immigrated to San Francisco in 1903.
Chiura Obata - Wikipedia
As a painter, Obata turned again and again to Nature as his greatest teacher, and his greatest subject. Today, his work can be found in art collections and museums around the world, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
How Japanese Artist Chiura Obata Came to Be an American Great
Jan 29, 2020 · In Tokyo, Obata was trained in the classical method of sumi-e (meaning black ink painting), widely used in Japanese and Chinese art. Obata said in 1935 that black ink or sumi allows the...
Obata’s Yosemite - Smithsonian American Art Museum
Feb 22, 2008 · The final intricate woodblock prints—some required more than 150 separate working proofs—resemble Obata’s watercolors, with lines like brush strokes and areas of delicately layered color. They are characterized by a distinctive merging of Japanese and Western printmaking styles and techniques.
Chiura Obata's Glorious Struggle - Smithsonian Institution
Dec 15, 2021 · When Chiura Obata painted Moonlight Over Topaz, Utah, he was a prisoner at the camp: one of 120,000 Japanese Americans to be incarcerated during World War II. The painting shows a dreamy moonlit desert, with just a few dark lines to hint at the barbed wire fences and guard towers that held him and his family captive.
Chiura Obata - SFMOMA
Dec 21, 2023 · Explore the work of Chiura Obata, one of California’s most important twentieth-century artists. In this exhibition, forty jewel-like watercolors, woodblock prints, and ink paintings trace Obata’s long, influential career as a Bay Area artist and professor.