Treasured Landscapes: National Park Service Art Collections Tell America's Stories (National Park Service)
2016Bacharach, Joan (General Editor)
160 pages (color)
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1885 Sendai, Japan - 1975 Berkeley, California. Known for: Portrait, modernist landscape, and still life painting.
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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
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 naturalism. He spent much of the 1920s painting landscapes throughout California, and among his... Read full biography
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Mountains and Rivers Without End: Poem by
2008Snyder, Gary0 pages (color)Yosemite: Art of an American Icon
2006
(Exhibition catalog)Scott, Amy (Editor); Brian Bibby, William Deverell, et all221 pages (color)Past Tents: The Way We Camped
2006Snyder, Susan0 pages (color)The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesMasterworks of American Painting at the De Young (De Young Museum)
2005Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Daniell Cornell573 pages (color)Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesBeing Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa . . . and Their Friends
2004Asakawa, Gil0 pages (color)Journey To Topaz: A Story Of The Japanese-American Evacuation
2004Carrick, Donald and Uchida, Yoshiko0 pages (color)Art Against the Odds: From Slave Quilts to Prison Paintings
2004Goldman Rubin, Susan0 pages (color)Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans
2003Harth, Erica0 pages (color)Extraordinary Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (Extraordinary People)
2003Sinnott, Susan0 pages (color)Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
2002
Available For Sale.Hughes, Edan Milton1,249 pagesFor Sale<a href="mailto:info@askart.com">Available For Sale</a>.California Watercolors 1850-1970, An Illustrated History & Biographical Dictionary
2002McClelland, Gordon T; Jay T. Last231 pages (color)Poets on the Peaks: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac in the Cascades
2002Suiter, John0 pages (color)Unfolding Beauty: Celebrating California's Landscapes (California Legacy Book)
2000Beers, Terry0 pages (color)Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience
2000California Historical Society and Lawson Fusao Inada0 pages (color)Topaz Moon: Chiura Obata's Art of the Internment
2000Kodani Hill, Kimi0 pages (color)Nature Art With Chiura Obata (Naturalist's Apprentice Biographies)
2000Ross, Michael Elsohn, and Smith-Griswold, Wendy0 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesThe Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924
1999Kiyama, Henry (Yoshitaka) and Schodt, Frederik L.0 pages (color)California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media
1998Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall560 pages (color)Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in Bay Area
1995Nash, Steven A216 pages (color)Obata's Yosemite: The Art and Letters of Chiura Obata from His Trip to the High Sierra in 1927
1993Landauer, Susan; Obata, Chiura; and Tolhurst Driesbach, Janice0 pages (color)Jewel of the Desert: Japanese American Internment at Topaz
1993Taylor, Sandra C.0 pages (color)Views from Asian California: An Illustrated History 1920-1965
1992Brown, Michael D71 pages (color)The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)1,117 pagesArtists in California, 1786-1940
1989Hughes, Edan Milton637 pagesArtists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985Dawdy, Doris1,184 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesThe Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984Orr-Cahill, Christina199 pages (color)Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pages