Life and Death, Porcupine Flat

Media - 2000.76.3 - SAAM-2000.76.3_1 - 51359
Copied Chiura Obata, Life and Death, Porcupine Flat, 1930, color woodcut on paper, image: 15 1210 78 in. (39.427.6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Obata Family, 2000.76.3, © 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani

Artwork Details

Title
Life and Death, Porcupine Flat
Artist
Date
1930
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image: 15 1210 78 in. (39.427.6 cm)
Markings
lower right in ink stamped: [artist's seal] lower right in watercolor: Chiura Obata lower left in margin in pencil: #4 back lower right in ink printed: No. (in a box) Made and printed in Japan/at Takamizawa Color-Print Studio window mat recto lower center in ink printed: El Capitán, Yosemite National Park, U.S.A.. [sic] (crossed out in felt-tipped pen and ink) window mat recto lower center in felt-tipped pen and ink: Life and Death/ Porcupine Flat, High Sierra, Claif., U.S.A. window mat recto lower right in ink printed: by Chiura Obata window mat recto lower right in pencil: #3 window mat recto lower right in ink printed: Woodcut and Color-Printed by Takamizawa window mat recto lower left embossed: [printer's chopmark] 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 — tree
  • Landscape — California
  • Allegory — life
  • Allegory — death
  • Landscape — park — Yosemite National Park
Object Number
2000.76.3

Exhibitions

Media - 2000.76.7 - SAAM-2000.76.7_2 - 134714
Obata’s Yosemite
February 22, 2008May 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.
A watercolor image of Grand Canyon.
Chiura Obata: American Modern
November 27, 2019March 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