Evening at Carl Inn

Chiura Obata, Evening at Carl Inn, 1930, color woodcut on paper, image: 15 ⁵⁄₈ x 10 ⁷⁄₈ in. (39.7 x 27.5 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Obata Family, 2000.76.6, © 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani

Artwork Details

Title: Evening at Carl Inn
Artist: Chiura Obata
Printer: Tadeo Takamizawa
Date: 1930
Location: Not on view
Dimensions: image: 15 ⁵⁄₈ x 10 ⁷⁄₈ in. (39.7 x 27.5 cm)
Copyright: © 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani
Credit Line: Gift of the Obata Family
Mediums Description: color woodcut on paper
Classifications: Graphic Arts
Print
Subjects: Architecture Exterior — domestic — cottage
Landscape — park — Yosemite National Park
Landscape — time — evening
Landscape — forest
Landscape — California
Object Number: 2000.76.6
Linked Open Data: https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2000.76.6

Works by this artist (2 items)

Megalith Envy, from the portfolio Drawn to Stone

Artist

Cynthia A. Osborne

lithograph

False Starts, from the portfolio Point of Departure

Artist

Cynthia A. Osborne

Date1983-1984

color lithograph, screenprint and pencil on paper

Exhibitions

Media - 2000.76.7 - SAAM-2000.76.7_2 - 134714

Obata’s Yosemite

February 22, 2008–June 1, 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.

Chiura Obata: American Modern

November 27, 2019–March 13, 2020

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Japanese-born artist Chiura Obata’s seemingly effortless synthesis of different art traditions defies the usual division between “East” and “West.” This exhibition presents the most comprehensive survey of his rich and varied body of work to date, from bo