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Caring for an American Art Treasure

A peek into the world of conservation and the meticulous care of James Hampton’s The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly.

Chiura Obata’s Life and Death, Porcupine Flat

Selected Artworks from Chiura Obata: American Modern

A watercolor of a fallen tree with trees and the blue sky in the background. — Chiura Obata, Life and Death, Porcupine Flat, 1930, color woodcut on paper, 15 1/2 x 10 7/8 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Obata Family, 2000.76.3, © 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani.