`Chiura Obata: An American Modern` spans Japanese American painter`s 70-year career
(Artdaily.org)

The Crocker Art Museum is presenting the exhibition `Chiura Obata: An American Modern`, which surveys the seven-decade career of one of the most significant Japanese American artists working on the West Coast in the last century. Drawn from private and public collections, this internationally travelling retrospective showcases more than 100 paintings, drawings, prints, and personal items, many of which have never been on public display. Works range from Obata`s nihonga (Japanese-style painting) studies as a student in Japan, watercolors from his magazine-illustrator days in San Francisco, and works depicting his personal experience of incarceration during World War II. Two of Obata`s famed woodblock prints are represented, as are his ink scrolls and the large-scale California landscapes for which he is perhaps best known, including his depictions of Yosemite. Chiura Obata