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Chiura Obata, a gifted Japanese-born artist from California, made his first trip to Yosemite in 1927. The trip left a lasting impression in a remarkable collection of sketches, postcards, and letters. This volume includes 80 full-color reproductions of Obata’s pencil sketches, watercolor paintings, and day-by-day narratives woven through his correspondences. Named one of the “Best Fifty books of 1993? by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the book is a unique and beautiful presentation of personal artistic experience.
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Obata's Yosemite, Chiura Obata, Janice Tolhurst Driesbach, Susan Landauer
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- Released
- 1993
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- Title
- Obata's Yosemite
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Yosemite Association
- Released
- 1993
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 156
- ISBN10
- 0939666677
- ISBN13
- 9780939666676
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Nature, Art
- Rating
- 4.55 out of 5
- Description
- Chiura Obata, a gifted Japanese-born artist from California, made his first trip to Yosemite in 1927. The trip left a lasting impression in a remarkable collection of sketches, postcards, and letters. This volume includes 80 full-color reproductions of Obata’s pencil sketches, watercolor paintings, and day-by-day narratives woven through his correspondences. Named one of the “Best Fifty books of 1993? by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the book is a unique and beautiful presentation of personal artistic experience.