Merced River, Yosemite Valley

Media - 2000.76.20 - SAAM-2000.76.20_2 - 135069
Copied Chiura Obata, Merced River, Yosemite Valley, 1930, color woodcut on paper, image: 15 3⁄4 x 11 in. (39.9 x 27.8 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Obata Family, 2000.76.20, © 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani

Artwork Details

Title
Merced River, Yosemite Valley
Artist
Printer
Date
1930
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image: 15 3⁄4 x 11 in. (39.9 x 27.8 cm)
Markings
lower left in ink stamped: [artist's seal] lower left in watercolor: Chiura Obata/1930 back lower right in ink printed and in pencil: No. 13 (in a box) Made and printed in Japan/at Takamizawa Color-Print Studio window mat recto lower center in ink printed and in pencil: Entrance of Masedo (crossed out) Merced River, Yosemite, Calif., U.S.A.. [sic] window mat recto lower right in ink printed: by Chiura Obata window mat recto lower right in pencil: #24 window mat recto lower right in pencil: #33 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 backing mat verso lower left in pencil: 35.00
Copyright
© 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani
Credit Line
Gift of the Obata Family
Mediums Description
color woodcut on paper
Classifications
Keywords
  • Landscape
  • Landscape — California
  • Landscape — mountain
  • Disaster — fire
  • Landscape — valley — Yosemite Valley
  • Landscape — river — Merced River
Object Number
2000.76.20
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2000.76.20

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.