Passing Rain

Obata Chiura, artist

1885–1975

Takimazawa, publisher

Passing Rain, 1930

Portfolio/Series title: World Landscape Series - American

Where object was made: Tokyo, Japan Yosemite National Park, California, United States

Material/technique: woodcut; laid paper

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 277 x 398 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 10 7/8 x 15 11/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 332 x 450 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 13 1/16 x 17 11/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 x 20 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Lucy Shaw Schultz Fund and Helen Foresman Spencer Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 2014.0320

Not on display

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Staging Shimomura

In 1903, self-described “roughneck” Obata Chiura immigrated to the United States. His teaching career at the University of California, Berkeley (1932–1953) was interrupted in 1942 when he and his family were unconstitutionally imprisoned at Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah, where he continued to teach art at a school that he funded with his own money. Throughout his artistic career, Obata maintained an abiding love for his adopted country, as seen in his moving depictions of the American landscape.

Staging Shimomura