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Chiura OBATA  -  1885 - 1975      Japanese American Artist

Chiura Obata

Chiura Obata 1885 - 1975

Chiura Obata was trained as an ink painter when he was still a child. As a young man he came to California in 1903. He received a post as an art instructor at Berkeley University in 1932. From 1942-45 he and his wife shared the fate of 100,000 other Japanese Americans and were held in different internment camps. After 1945 the artist could continue his former work at Berkeley University until his retirement in 1954.
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Literature sources used for artist biographies:

• Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako, "Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints 1900-1975", University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X
• Lane, Richard, "Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print", Fribourg, 1978, ISBN 0-914427-54-7
• Laurance, P.Roberts, "A Dictionary of Japanese Artists", John Weatherhill Inc., New York, 1976
• Frances Blakemore "Who is Who in Modern Japanese Prints", John Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1975. ISBN 0-8348-0101-9
• Annual CWAJ catalogs