Description: Sumi-e by Chiura Obata Berkeley, 1967, By the Author; First Edition, SIGNED by Chiura Obata on the front endpaper; illustrated paper cover boards; general wear else good fully intact; 72 pages. "Chiura Obata (小圃 千浦, Obata Chiura, November 18, 1885 – October 6, 1975) was a well-known Japanese-American artist and popular art teacher ... 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 Department at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1932 to 1954, interrupted by World War II, when he spent a year in an internment camp. He nevertheless emerged as a leading figure in the Northern California art scene and as an influential educator, teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, for nearly twenty years and acting as founding director of the art school at the Topaz internment camp ... "
Price: 200 USD
Location: Berkeley, California
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Shipping Cost: 5.95 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Berkeley, California
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated, signed
Signed: Yes
Author: Chiura Obata
Personalized: No
Publisher: Chiura Obata
Topic: Sumi-e, ink brush painting
Subject: Art & Photography
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1967
