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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
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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
Exhibitions
February 22, 2008–May 31, 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.
November 27, 2019–March 13, 2020
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