Chiura obata wikipedia
Chiura obata wikipedia
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Chiura Obata
Chiura Obata | |
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Professor Chiura Obata painting in 1944 | |
| Born | Zoroku Sato (1885-11-18)November 18, 1885 Okayama, Japan |
| Died | October 6, 1975(1975-10-06) (aged 89) Berkeley, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Painter, professor |
| Years active | 1899–1975 |
| Spouse(s) | Haruko Kohashi (1892–1989; m. 1912) |
| Children | Kimio George (son, 1912–1986); Fujiko (daughter, 1915–?); Gyo (son, 1923–2022); Lillian Yuri (daughter, 1927–2018) |
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Chiura Obata (小圃 千浦, Obata Chiura, November 18, 1885 – October 6, 1975)[2] was a well-known Japanese-American artist and popular art teacher.[3] A self-described "roughneck",[4] 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 Sierra Nevada, and was a faculty member in the Art Departmen