Before Thunderstorm, Tuolumne Meadows

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

Artwork Details

Title: Before Thunderstorm, Tuolumne Meadows
Artist: Chiura Obata
Printer: Tadeo Takamizawa
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: Graphic Arts
Print
Subjects: Landscape — river
Landscape — California
Landscape — river
Landscape — mountain
Landscape — weather — storm
Landscape — bird’s eye view
Landscape — forest
Landscape — park — Yosemite National Park
Object Number: 2000.76.7
Linked Open Data: https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2000.76.7

Works by this artist (8 items)

Artist

Date1971

gold-toned printing on paper

Untitled

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Linda Connor

Date1976

gold-toned p.o.p. print

Image Not Available

Banaras, India

Artist

Linda Connor

Date1979

gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper

Design Petroglyph, Wapatki

Artist

Linda Connor

Date1989

gelatin silver print

Exhibitions

Media - 2000.76.7 - SAAM-2000.76.7_2 - 134714

Obata’s Yosemite

February 22, 2008–June 1, 2008

Smithsonian American Art Museum

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.