Catalog ID: 3409
Artist: Chiura Obata
Medium: Original Limited-Edition Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: World Landscape Series of America
Edition: First
Date: 1930
Publisher: Takamizawa & supervised by the artist
Reference No.: Obata's Yosemite: pg. 139
Size: 18 x 13 "
Condition: Very fine.
Notes:
Artist: Chiura Obata
Medium: Original Limited-Edition Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: World Landscape Series of America
Edition: First
Date: 1930
Publisher: Takamizawa & supervised by the artist
Reference No.: Obata's Yosemite: pg. 139
Size: 18 x 13 "
Condition: Very fine.
Notes:
Signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Offered with the original studio folder. A total of 114 impressions were used to complete the final printing of this design in order to replicate all the intricacies of Obata's original watercolor. Out of the 35 compositions completed, only the finest 100 impressions were selected for the final portfolio edition.
Clad in a misty autumnal vapor, the high cliff at the entrance of Yosemite Valleyt looks sleepily down at the murmuring river that flows below.