Chiura Obata, "Silence, Last Twilight on an Unknown Lake, Johnson Peak," 1930, color woodcut on paper, 11 x 15 5/8 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Obata Family, 2000.76.18 ...

When the Utah Museum of Fine Arts acquired a major work by Japanese American artist Chiura Obata, curators knew they were getting something rare. What they didn’t know, until restoration efforts ...

June 1927. Painters Chiura Obata and Worth Ryder stuff a Model T Ford with 14 boxes of food, fishing equipment, a tent, two beds, two suitcases, a large bucket of water, painting materials, and a half ...