Mono Crater

Chiura Obata, Mono Crater, 1930, color woodcut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Obata Family, 2000.76.9, © 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani
Chiura Obata, Mono Crater, 1930, color woodcut on paper, image: 1115 58 in. (27.839.8 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Obata Family, 2000.76.9, © 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani

Artwork Details

Title
Mono Crater
Artist
Date
1930
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image: 1115 58 in. (27.839.8 cm)
Copyright
© 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani
Credit Line
Gift of the Obata Family
Mediums Description
color woodcut on paper
Classifications
Subjects
  • Landscape — California
  • Landscape — phenomenon
  • Landscape — phenomenon — volcano
  • Landscape — lake — Mono Lake
Object Number
2000.76.9

Works by this artist (9 items)

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, The Countess, 1838, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1979.44
The Countess
Date1838
oil on canvas
On view
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, Bird Nesting, 1837, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase in memory of Joshua C. Taylor through the Director's Discretionary Fund, 1981.51
Bird Nesting
Date1837
oil on canvas
On view
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, The Courtship of Anne Boleyn, 1846, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1980.28
The Courtship of Anne Boleyn
Date1846
oil on canvas
On view

Exhibitions

Media - 2000.76.7 - SAAM-2000.76.7_2 - 134714
Obata’s Yosemite
February 22, 2008June 1, 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.

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Jeff Donaldson, Victory in Zimbabwe, 1980, mixed media on cardboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum Purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2019.1, © 2018, Estate of Jeff Donaldson
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