Online Gallery for Chiura Obata: American Modern

A watercolor image of a crater in shades of green, blue, and purple.

Chiura Obata’s Mono Crater

A watercolor image of Grand Canyon.

Chiura Obata’s Grand Canyon

A watercolor image of a lake with mountains in the background.

Chiura Obata’s Lake Basin in the High Sierra

A watercolor image of a waterfall with a rainbow.

Chiura Obata’s Rainbow Falls, Inyo National Forest

A watercolor image of some trees and a mountain in the background.

Chiura Obata’s Eagle Peak Trail

A contour drawing of a man walking down a street.

Chiura Obata’s Departure from Berkeley, First Congregational Church, Berkeley

A watercolor image of a small inn surrounded by trees.

Chiura Obata’s Carl Inn

A watercolor image of a small inn surrounded by trees.

Chiura Obata’s Evening at Carl Inn

A watercolor image of two bears.

Chiura Obata’s Untitled (Bears)

A contour drawing of a pier.

Chiura Obata’s Untitled (Pier)

A watercolor image of two people sitting with destruction around them.

Chiura Obata’s Devastation

A contour drawing of people gathered inside a room.

Chiura Obata’s Gathering in the Laundry Room, Tanforan

A watercolor image of a lake with mountains in the background.

Chiura Obata’s Silence, Last Twilight on an Unknown Lake, Johnson Peak

A watercolor image of dwellings with a dust storm above.

Chiura Obata’s Dust Storm, Topaz

A watercolor image of rocks and trees along an incline.

Chiura Obata’s Struggle, Trail to Johnson Peak

A painting of a woman standing with a flowering tree behind her.

Chiura Obata’s Maiden of Northern Japan

A watercolor image of a small inn surrounded by trees.

Chiura Obata’s Evening at Carl Inn (progressive proof No. 6)

A watercolor image of a vase with flowers

Chiura Obata’s Untitled (Ikebana in Glass Vase)

A watercolor image with trees in the foreground, mountains in the middle ground, and the sunset in the background.

Chiura Obata’s Evening Glow at Mono Lake, from Mono Mills

An abstract painting of a tree with wind.

Chiura Obata’s Glorious Struggle

A watercolor of a fallen tree with trees and the blue sky in the background.

Chiura Obata’s Life and Death, Porcupine Flat

A painting with mountains and mist.

Chiura Obata’s Mountain Mist (Gilroy Hot Springs)

A watercolor image of a mountain peak with snow.

Chiura Obata’s A Snow Storm Nearing Yosemite Government Center

A watercolor image of landscape with snow.

Chiura Obata’s Great Nature, Storm on Mount Lyell from Johnson Peak