Mono Crater

Chiura Obata, Mono Crater, 1930, color woodcut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Obata Family, 2000.76.9, © 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani
Chiura Obata, Mono Crater, 1930, color woodcut on paper, image: 1115 58 in. (27.839.8 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Obata Family, 2000.76.9, © 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani

Artwork Details

Title
Mono Crater
Artist
Date
1930
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image: 1115 58 in. (27.839.8 cm)
Copyright
© 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodani
Credit Line
Gift of the Obata Family
Mediums Description
color woodcut on paper
Classifications
Subjects
  • Landscape — California
  • Landscape — phenomenon
  • Landscape — phenomenon — volcano
  • Landscape — lake — Mono Lake
Object Number
2000.76.9

Works by this artist (1 item)

Alicia Eggert, This Present Moment, 2019-2020, neon, custom controller, steel, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Renwick General Acquisitions Fund, 2021.4, © 2019, Alicia Eggert
This Present Moment
Date2019-2020
neon, custom controller, steel
On view

Exhibitions

Media - 2000.76.7 - SAAM-2000.76.7_2 - 134714
Obata’s Yosemite
February 22, 2008June 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.

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