Chiura Obata ART FOR SALE

1885 Sendai, Japan - 1975 Berkeley, California. Known for: Portrait, modernist landscape, and still life painting.

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Born in the Okayama prefecture of Japan, Chiura Obata was adopted by his uncle, an artist. As a child he was trained in ink painting, and at 14 he was apprenticed to the painter Murata Tanryo in Tokyo. He also studied with Kogyo Terasaki and Goho Hasimoto. In 1903, Obata moved to San Francisco and began working as an illustrator for The New World and The Japanese American, two of the city's Japanese newspapers. He also did work as a commercial designer. Obata helped establish the East West Art Society in San Francisco in 1921, which sought to promote cross-cultural understanding through art. This goal was reflected in his embrace of the Nihonga style, which fused traditional Japanese sumi-e ink painting with the conventions of western... Read full biography

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"Ships and Forest"

Type:Painting

Size:22.50" x 30.50"

Medium:Ink

Signed:Lower Left

Notes:

"Ships and Forest" is a very large sumi ink painting by California artist, Chiura Obata in abstract in his distinctive style. The painting is signed lower left and is 33 by 41 inches framed.

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