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Chiura Obata, Before Thunderstorm, Tuolumne Meadows, 1930, color woodcut on paper, image: 11 x 15 5⁄8 in. (27.9 x 39.8 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Obata Family, 2000.76.7, © 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani
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Artwork Details
- Title
- Before Thunderstorm, Tuolumne Meadows
- Artist
- Printer
- Date
- 1930
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 11 x 15 5⁄8 in. (27.9 x 39.8 cm)
- Copyright
- © 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Obata Family
- Mediums Description
- color woodcut on paper
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Landscape — park — Yosemite National Park
- Landscape — forest
- Landscape — bird’s eye view
- Landscape — weather — storm
- Landscape — mountain
- Landscape — river
- Landscape — river
- Landscape — California
- Object Number
- 2000.76.7
Exhibitions
February 22, 2008–June 1, 2008
Between 1928 and 1930, while Obata was in Tokyo, he transformed these California landscape watercolors and sketches into a limited-edition portfolio titled World Landscape Series.