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Article: Chiura Obata at the de Young Museum.(M. H. de Young Memorial Museum)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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To mark the closing of the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, which is to be replaced by a controversial new building, a project approved only after much acrimony, the museum's curatorial staff chose as their final exhibitions two bodies of work dedicated to reconciliation and friendship: the familiar Peaceable Kingdoms of Edward Hicks and the splendid works on paper of Chiura Obata (1885-1975), a California artist who deserves to be far better known than he is.
Born and educated in Japan, Obata brought the esthetic of ink painting on paper to his American subject matter. The exhibition ranged from editorial illustration--Obata did historically important work in ...