Chiura Obata, “A Snow Storm Nearing Yosemite Park Government Center, February 1939” (all image courtesy the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara unless otherwise noted) SANTA BARBARA ...

Obata's Yosemite considers the impact that visits to Yosemite National Park and California’s High Sierras had on the life and work of the influential Japanese American artist and educator Chiura Obata ...

Chiura Obata was a Japanese-American artist. He is best known for his depictions of landscapes in California, especially those of Yosemite National Park. Obata’s style blends the tradition of Japanese ...

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"Obata's Yosemite: The Art and Letters of Chiura Obata from His Trip to the High Sierra in 1927," Yosemite National Park, CA: Yosemite Association, 1993, pg. 82.