Chiura Obata

Before the Rain, Mono Lake
1930

Watercolor painting of a serene seascape with blue tones, distant hills, and a cloudy sky, signed by the artist.

Watercolor painting of a serene seascape with blue tones, distant hills, and a cloudy sky, signed by the artist.

Not on view

Date
1930

Classification
Prints

Medium
Woodblock print

Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 13 1/8 × 17 3/4in. (33.3 × 45.1 cm) Image: 10 7/8 × 15 1/2in. (27.6 × 39.4 cm)

Accession number
2015.15

Series
World Landscape Series “America”

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gyo Obata

Rights and reproductions
© Gyo Obata

API
artworks/46356

Exhibitions

At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism

May 7, 2022–Feb 26, 2023
The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965

On view

Chiura Obata
24 works in the collection

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