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Chiura Obata internment camp prints, 1941-1943.
MANUSCRIPT SMCII : Box 28 : Folder 14
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Title:

Chiura Obata internment camp prints, 1941-1943
Obata prints

Creator/Contributor:

Obata, Chiura., creator

Abstract:

6 reduced-size color photocopies of Chiura Obata prints.

Date:

1941 (issued)

Subject:

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Artists -- United States -- 20th century
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

Note:

These prints correspond to those appearing on pages 113, 115, 116, 121, 122, and 129 of "Chiura Obata's Topaz Moon: Art of the Internment" (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2000), available in the California History Section under N6537.O22 A2 2000.
Chiura Obata was born in 1885 in Sendai, Japan. Trained as an ink painter, he came to California in 1903 and worked as an illustrator and commerical designer. Obata returned to Japan during 1928-1932 and transformed his California paintings into woodblock prints that resembled watercolors. After his return to California he obtained a position as an art instructor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1942 Obata was interned along with other Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals, and eventually went to the relocation camp at Topaz, Utah, where he produced hundreds of paintings and sketches and organized an art school. After the end of the war in 1945, Obata resumed his teaching at the University of California, retired in 1954, and continued to paint and sketch until his death in 1975.
Obata prints.
Images are under copyright and may not be reproduced without consent of the Obata family.

Type:

festschrift

Physical Description:

print
Prints in file folder; 14 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.

Language:

English

Identifier:

MANUSCRIPT SMCII : Box 28 : Folder 14

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Images are under copyright and may not be reproduced without consent of the Obata family.