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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Lake Basin in the High Sierra
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Chiura Obata was born in Japan and moved to the United States in 1903. He worked as an illustrator in San Francisco, California for the city's largest Japanese language newspaper.
His loose, calligraphic style and his ability to capture the force of nature were evident in his popular landscape paintings.
Source: Art & Antiques, February 2003
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Chiura Obata (1885-1975)
California Painter, Printmaker
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