Before Thunderstorm, Tuolumne Meadows

Media - 2000.76.7 - SAAM-2000.76.7_2 - 134714
Copied Chiura Obata, Before Thunderstorm, Tuolumne Meadows, 1930, color woodcut on paper, image: 11 x 15 5⁄8 in. (27.9 x 39.8 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Obata Family, 2000.76.7, © 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani

Artwork Details

Title
Before Thunderstorm, Tuolumne Meadows
Artist
Printer
Date
1930
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image: 11 x 15 5⁄8 in. (27.9 x 39.8 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. 8 (in a box) Made and printed in Japan/at Takamizawa Color-Print Studio window mat recto lower center in ink printed: Before Thunderstorm/Tuolumn Meadow, High Sierra, U.S.A.. [sic] window mat recto lower right in ink printed: by Chiura Obata window mat recto lower right in pencil: #7 window mat recto lower right in ink printed: Woodcut and Color-Printed by Takamizawa window mat recto lower left in pencil: #9 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 — river
  • Landscape — river
  • Landscape — mountain
  • Landscape — weather — storm
  • Landscape — bird’s eye view
  • Landscape — forest
  • Landscape — park — Yosemite National Park
Object Number
2000.76.7
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2000.76.7

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.