Chiura Obata
(1885-1975)
American artist
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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. A self-described "roughneck", 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 over a year in internment camps. After his retirement, he continued to paint and to lead group tours to Japan to see gardens and art.
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18 November 1885 Okayama Prefecture, Japan
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| Died |
6 October 1975 (aged 89) Berkeley, California, United States
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| Zodiac | Scorpio |
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