Lake Basin in the High Sierra

Media - 2000.76.25 - SAAM-2000.76.25_2 - 135070
Copied Chiura Obata, Lake Basin in the High Sierra, 1930, color woodcut on paper, image: 11 3⁄8 x 15 5⁄8 in. (28.9 x 39.7 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Obata Family, 2000.76.25, © 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani

Artwork Details

Title
Lake Basin in the High Sierra
Artist
Printer
Date
1930
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image: 11 3⁄8 x 15 5⁄8 in. (28.9 x 39.7 cm)
Markings
lower left in ink stamped: [artist's seal] lower left in watercolor: Chiura Obata/1930 back lower left in pencil: BB back lower right in ink printed and in pencil: No. 25 (in a box) Made and printed in Japan/at Takamizawa Color-Print Studio window mat recto lower center in ink printed: Lake Basin in High Sierra; Jhonson Peak High Sierra, U.S.A.. [sic] window mat recto lower right in ink printed: by Chiura Obata window mat recto lower right in pencil: #32 window mat recto lower right in ink printed: Woodcut and Color-Printed by Takamizawa window mat recto lower right in pencil: [illegible] #50 window mat recto lower left in pencil: #50 1 window mat recto lower left embossed: [printer's chopmark] backing mat recto lower left in pencil: [partially obscured by old adhesive] 10 backing mat verso lower left in ink printed: Made in Japan
Copyright
© 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani
Credit Line
Gift of the Obata Family
Mediums Description
color woodcut on paper
Classifications
Keywords
  • Landscape
  • Landscape — California
  • Landscape — lake
  • Landscape — mountain — Sierra Nevada Mountains
  • Landscape — mountain — Johnson Peak
Object Number
2000.76.25
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2000.76.25

Exhibitions

Media - 2000.76.7 - SAAM-2000.76.7_2 - 134714
Obata’s Yosemite
February 22, 2008–May 31, 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.
A watercolor image of Grand Canyon.
Chiura Obata: American Modern
November 27, 2019–March 13, 2020
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Japanese-born artist Chiura Obata’s seemingly effortless synthesis of different art traditions defies the usual division between “East” and “West.” This exhibition presents the most comprehensive survey of his rich and varied body of work to date, from bo