Chiura Obata, Passing Rain, 1930, color woodcut on paper, image:
10 7⁄8 x 15 3⁄4 in. (27.7 x 39.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Obata Family, 2000.76.12, © 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani
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Artwork Details
- Title
- Passing Rain
- Artist
- Printer
- Date
- 1930
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 10 7⁄8 x 15 3⁄4 in. (27.7 x 39.9 cm)
- Copyright
- © 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Obata Family
- Mediums Description
- color woodcut on paper
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Landscape — weather — rain
- Landscape — rocks
- Landscape — river
- Landscape — California
- Object Number
- 2000.76.12
Works by this artist (7 items)
Artist
Date1990
satinwood, ebony, 24k gold, sterling silver, fine silver, enamel, and rutilated quartz
Artist
Date1989
ebony, 24k gold, sterling silver, enamel, amethyst, and charoite
Exhibitions
February 22, 2008–June 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.