Our Camp, May 2, 1906. by Chiura Obata (American, 1885 - 1975). Watercolor and graphite on paper. Asian Art Museum, Gift from the Estate of Chiura Obata, 2021.40 ...

The Chiura Obata Papers were the source for an assignment created in the Archives of American Art’s Teaching with Primary Sources workshop Michaela Rife Chiura Obata, El Capitan, n.d., watercolor on ...

Chiura Obata was a Japanese-American artist. He is best known for his depictions of landscapes in California, especially those of Yosemite National Park. Obata’s style blends the tradition of Japanese ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Japanese American prisoners tried to ...

In 1903, at the age of seventeen, the artist Chiura Obata (1885–1975) emigrated from Japan to the United States. He first found work in San Francisco as an illustrator, then, in 1932, joined the ...

As Georgia O’Keeffe was to the landscape of New Mexico, artist Chiura Obata was to the grandeur of Yosemite. The national park in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains inspired the Japanese-born ...

When he was 56, Chiura Obata — already recognized as a gifted landscape painter known for beautiful vistas of California — moved with his family to Utah, but not by choice. The move in 1942 was a ...

As a child, Kimi Hill had seen the sketches that her grandfather, the well-known artist and UC Berkeley professor Chiura Obata, made while in World War II internment camps. But the artwork sat in ...

Gyo Obata, a giant of American architecture whose impact on the built environment can be keenly felt across his adopted hometown of St. Louis and in locales further afield, passed away on March 8. He ...

Architects tend to have fairly expansive ideas about the concept of space, especially architects as renowned as Gyo Obata, the original O in the global architecture firm HOK. Obata has been the design ...