Morning At Mono Lake

Media - 2000.76.2 - SAAM-2000.76.2_2 - 135076
Copied Chiura Obata, Tadeo Takamizawa, Morning At Mono Lake, 1930, color woodcut on paper, image: 11 x 15 3⁄4 in. (27.9 x 39.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Obata Family, 2000.76.2, © 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani

Artwork Details

Title
Morning At Mono Lake
Artists
Date
1930
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image: 11 x 15 3⁄4 in. (27.9 x 39.9 cm)
Markings
lower left in ink stamped: [artist's seal] lower left in watercolor: Chiura Obata lower left in margin in pencil: 3 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: Morning of Mono Lake/High Sierra, Calif., U.S.A.. [sic] window mat recto lower right in ink printed: by Chiura Obata window mat recto lower right in pencil: #2 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 — California
  • Landscape — time — morning
  • Landscape — lake — Mono Lake
Object Number
2000.76.2
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2000.76.2

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.