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relationship to the wider pictures is vital. It's an important immigrant story that has helped others learn. There are hidden treasures and understandings to discover.” A black-and-white painting included in the exhibit pleases her especially. “When you look at it, you'd never know it's from
Yosemite. There's no obvious mountain or waterfall, but it has this mist coming in and out. He's capturing an American landscape with an Asian perspective and tradition.”
435:, he was a prisoner at the camp: one of 120,000 Japanese Americans to be incarcerated during World War II. The painting shows a dreamy moonlit desert, with just a few dark lines to hint at the barbed wire fences and guard towers that held him and his family captive. As a painter, Obata turned again and again to Nature as his greatest teacher, and his greatest subject. Today, his work can be found in art collections and museums around the world, including the
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509:, Hill, who's become the Obata family historian, writes about, and includes art and letters Obata created as he kept record of his and other Japanese Americans’ ordeal. Even in the harsh climate and conditions at Topaz, he looked across the wide Sevier Desert to Topaz Mountain and later noted: “If I hadn't gone to that kind of place I wouldn't have realized the beauty that exists in that enormous bleakness.”
390:. Their curriculum was comprehensive, offering 95 classes each week in 25 subjects. Camp administrators were supportive, seeing art as a constructive way to occupy detainees' time, and Obata and his colleagues were eventually allowed to order supplies from Sears Roebuck catalogs or purchase them in town. The school became so successful that they were able to exhibit the artwork outside the camp in July.
220:(the Japan Art Institute), and became apprenticed to the painter Tanryo Murata for three years. He also studied with Kogyo Terasaki and Gaho Hasimoto. He was trained in Western as well as modern Japanese art with a focus on Japanese sumi ink-and-brush painting, painting throughout his life in the eclectic style. Shortly after he finished his apprenticeship, he received a prestigious art award in Tokyo.
417:. There Obata was the founder and Director of The Topaz Art School, which had 16 artist/instructors who taught 23 subjects to over 600 students. During his internment, Obata made about one hundred sketches, paintings, and prints, using whatever materials were available—even making relief prints on surplus linoleum.
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contains several Obata prints of the park. The
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was a well-known
Japanese-American artist and popular art teacher. A self-described "roughneck", Obata went to the United States in 1903, at age 17. After initially working as an illustrator and commercial decorator, he had a successful career as a painter, following a 1927 summer spent in the
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In 1954, Chiura and Haruko Obata led the first of the "Obata Tours" to Japan, to see
Japanese gardens and Japanese art. From 1955 to 1970, Obata traveled throughout California, giving lectures and demonstrations on Japanese brush painting, and leading tours. In 1965 he received the
240:, he found work as a domestic servant in a household, with the pay of $ 1.50 per week plus room and board. He was one of the founders of the Fuji Club, the first Japanese-American baseball team on the American mainland. In 1906, Obata made on-site sketches of the aftermath of the
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detention center. By May, he and fellow artists, were able to create an art school that had 900 students, entirely with their own money and with donations from the outside from friends from U.C. Berkeley, including
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523:San Francisco's 75th Diamond Jubilee Celebration
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1751:Obata, Chiura (2000). Hill, Kimi Kodani (ed.).
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1475:. Berkeley: Archetype Press.
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1854:. Densho Encyclopedia.
1644:Obata, Chiura (1930).
1529:Obata, Chiura (1968).
1512:Obata, Chiura (1967).
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1247:Berkeley Daily Gazette
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374:Executive Order 9066
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1564:. Heyday Books.
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